From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Jose R. Ziviani" <jziviani@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vga: don't abort when adding a duplicate isa-vga device
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:05:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210816050555.k63uuhqhbloarcj2@sirius.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dd25d6d-b9ba-0000-96a0-451fd1b28c56@redhat.com>
Hi,
> > + if (qemu_ram_block_by_name("vga.vram")) {
> > + error_report("vga.vram is already registered, ignoring this device");
> > + return;
> > + }
>
> I think we should not ignore the error, but rather turn this into a proper
> error (instead of aborting).
Yes. Silently fixing up things automatically tends to be worse long-term.
take care,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-16 5:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-13 23:36 [PATCH] vga: don't abort when adding a duplicate isa-vga device Jose R. Ziviani
2021-08-14 6:52 ` Thomas Huth
2021-08-16 5:05 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2021-08-16 12:34 ` Jose Ricardo Ziviani
2021-08-24 5:12 ` Markus Armbruster
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