Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10]: QError v4

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>> Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>     
>>> 3. It falls short of the requirement that clients can easily present a
>>>   human-readable error description to their human users, regardless of
>>>   whether they know the error or not.
>>>  
>>>       
>> That's just incorrect.  We provide an example conversion table that's 
>> akin to strerror() or a __repr__ for an exception in Python.
>>     
>
> Markus refers to errors that the client does not know - i.e. when the
> client is older than qemu, or is not in the same development branch if
> it's a branched qemu.  Which means the client won't have a fully up to
> date conversion table.
>
> Do you mean qemu provides it's current conversion table to the client
> over the wire protocol?
>   

(qemu) format_error "{'class': 'DeviceNotFound', 'data' : {'addr': 
'00:11:22'} }"
Device 0:11:22 is not present

Is what I'm thinking.  I don't think it's needed but it solves the 
"problem".

Regards,

Anthony Liguori