From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: jcody@redhat.com, famz@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
stefanha@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] Improve bdrv_open error messages
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 15:06:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140219140616.GG3613@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392644647-9897-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Am 17.02.2014 um 14:43 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
> Most of the block drivers are not using the Error** argument to bdrv_open,
> and instead just printing errors to stderr. This series improves that,
> and as a consequence it also avoids abuse of errno numbers.
>
> The only hurdle (caught by qemu-iotests, too) is VMDK, where we currently
> parse a file first as image, and second as a descriptor. This makes
> it hard to pick a good error message, because you do not know which
> attempt gave the most reasonable error message. For this reason patches
> 15-17 modify this approach and push up the detection of vmdk image file
> magic numbers.
>
> Apart from this, and from a segfault fixed by patch 7, the series consists
> of mostly trivial patches.
Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-19 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-17 13:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] Improve bdrv_open error messages Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/20] nbd: produce a better error if neither host nor port is passed Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 18:48 ` Eric Blake
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 02/20] nbd: correctly propagate errors Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 03/20] nbd: inline tcp_socket_incoming_spec into sole caller Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 04/20] nbd: move socket wrappers to qemu-nbd Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 05/20] iscsi: fix indentation Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 06/20] iscsi: correctly propagate errors in iscsi_open Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-19 9:34 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 07/20] gluster: default scheme to gluster:// and host to localhost Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 08/20] gluster: correctly propagate errors Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/20] cow: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 10/20] curl: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 11/20] qcow: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 12/20] qed: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 13/20] vhdx: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 14:38 ` Jeff Cody
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 14/20] vvfat: " Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 15/20] vmdk: extract vmdk_read_desc Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 16/20] vmdk: push vmdk_read_desc up to caller Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 17/20] vmdk: do not try opening a file as both image and descriptor Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 18/20] vmdk: correctly propagate errors Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 19/20] block: do not abuse EMEDIUMTYPE Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 20/20] vdi: say why an image is bad Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-18 6:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/20] Improve bdrv_open error messages Fam Zheng
2014-02-19 14:06 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2014-02-20 17:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-21 11:08 ` Kevin Wolf
2014-02-21 11:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-21 11:47 ` Kevin Wolf
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