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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] block: add error parameter to bdrv_snapshot_create() and related functions
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 15:43:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130409134349.GC2922@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5cretjn.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>

Am 09.04.2013 um 15:13 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> When doing an error conversion, you have to decide "where to cut".
> Everything above the cut is converted to Error.  Everything below keeps
> using other methods, such as returning -errno.
> 
> Using Error sucks, because it's cumbersome.
> 
> Using Error is nice, because you can report errors in more detail.
> 
> Converting to Error is worthwhile when the niceness is worth the
> suckage.
> 
> This patch cuts below the block driver API.  I'm not saying that's bad.
> I just want to hear Kevin's opinion on it (cc'ed).

I think for bdrv_snapshot_create() it could make sense to pass an Error
object to the block drivers. Same thing for bdrv_create() or
bdrv_open(). Most other functions probably can't make much use of it.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-09 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-29 14:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] convert savevm to use qapi and introduce qmp command Pavel Hrdina
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 01/11] block: add error parameter to bdrv_snapshot_create() and related functions Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:13   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:43     ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2013-04-09 16:21   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 02/11] block: add error parameter to del_existing_snapshots() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:27   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 14:14     ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-10  9:57     ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 11:33       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10 12:06       ` Eric Blake
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 03/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_begin() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:34   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:37     ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 13:47       ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:49       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 04/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_iterate() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:41   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 05/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state_complete() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 13:56   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 06/11] savevm: add error parameter to qemu_savevm_state() Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 14:00   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 07/11] qapi: Convert savevm Pavel Hrdina
2013-03-29 16:12   ` Eric Blake
2013-03-29 16:21     ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:04   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 16:12     ` Eric Blake
2013-04-09 17:23       ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-09 17:46         ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10  8:01           ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/11] qemu-img: introduce qemu_img_handle_error Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:10   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 09/11] block: update return value from bdrv_snapshot_create Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:29   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 10/11] savevm: update return value from qemu_savevm_state Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:32   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-03-29 14:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 11/11] savevm: add force parameter to HMP command and return snapshot info Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-09 16:45   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10  8:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/11] convert savevm to use qapi and introduce qmp command Markus Armbruster
2013-04-10 10:53   ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 12:24     ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 12:40       ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-10 12:49         ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 13:22           ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 13:32             ` Luiz Capitulino
2013-04-10 13:50               ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 14:05       ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-10 17:15         ` Eric Blake
2013-04-10 17:33           ` Pavel Hrdina
2013-04-17  2:48             ` Wenchao Xia
2013-04-11  9:20           ` Markus Armbruster
2013-04-15 12:10             ` Kevin Wolf
2013-04-15 13:16               ` Eric Blake

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