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Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 08:14:20 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] QMP: Add 'reason' member to the
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com

On 04/29/2010 12:30 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:24:29 -0500
> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On 04/28/2010 03:32 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>>      
>>> It's a parsable errno string representation, this is needed
>>> because some management tools want to base their action on
>>> the error cause.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino<lcapitulino@redhat.com>
>>>
>>>        
>> Does anyone differentiate beyond ENOSPC and EIO?
>>      
>   For this specific case, I guess not.
>
>   But this general solution is also needed in other places like
> savevm, loadvm and delvm I was working (and sent) an RFC last week,
> also I think other events and errors might need this in the near future.
>
>   IOW, I expect this to be a QMP idiom.
>    

I think that's a bit of a crutch.  What's the point of QError if it's 
just encapsulating errno's?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori