From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: Add special error code for wrong format
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:34:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121218143423.GB10813@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355580573-19323-2-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de>
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 03:09:30PM +0100, Stefan Weil wrote:
> The block drivers normally return -errno for typical errors.
> There is no appropriate error code for "wrong format", so
> use a special error code which does not conflict with system
> error codes.
ENOTTY is used when something is of the wrong type. Since the name
"ENOTTY" is not clear, defining a new error code makes sense though.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-18 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-15 14:09 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] block: Fix error report for wrong file format Stefan Weil
2012-12-15 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] block: Add special error code for wrong format Stefan Weil
2012-12-18 14:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2013-01-17 12:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-12-15 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] block: Improve error report " Stefan Weil
2012-12-17 15:08 ` Luiz Capitulino
2012-12-15 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] block: Use new error code for wrong format in selected block drivers Stefan Weil
2012-12-15 15:54 ` Don Slutz
2012-12-15 14:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] block/vdi: Improved return values from vdi_open and other small fixes Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 12:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2013-01-16 18:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] block: Fix error report for wrong file format Stefan Weil
2013-01-17 8:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-17 12:10 ` Kevin Wolf
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