Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/17] s390x/css: Pass local error object pointer to error_append_hint()

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:46:42 -0500
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 9/18/19 5:26 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:36:20 +0200
> > Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:24:12 +0200
> >> Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:21:34 +0200
> >>> Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> >>>     
> >>>> Ensure that hints are added even if errp is &error_fatal or &error_abort.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  hw/s390x/s390-ccw.c |    6 ++++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)    
> >>>
> >>> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
> >>>
> >>> Can also take this via the s390 tree, let me know what would work best.    
> >>
> >> I guess it would be easier to merge if each individual patch goes
> >> through the corresponding sub-maintainer tree. But Eric mentioned
> >> in another mail that the whole whole series could maybe go through
> >> Markus' error tree... so, I don't know which is best. :)  
> > 
> > Ok, it's probably best to take this through the s390 tree, as I plan to
> > send a pull request tomorrow :)  
> 
> If we go with Vladimir's idea of auto-propagation, this change just gets
> rewritten again as part of our simplifications to drop all use of
> 'local_err' in favor of instead using the macro that makes errp always
> safe to use locally.
> 

Fair enough. That auto-propagation approach really looks nice, so I'll
go ahead and unqueue this patch again.