From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qdev: print error message before aborting
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:35:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F3E81E9.8070505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_CBsWPcj_Y-Ze9ckVfXha2aZRKz2O9avWsBDKkwjKurg@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/17/2012 05:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So now you get:
> qemu-system-arm: Insufficient permission to perform this operation
> Aborted
>
> This still isn't really very diagnostic: I had to run the whole
> thing under a debugger and look at the backtrace anyway before
> I realised I'd hit the same problem again.
Sorry. :)
> Isn't there some way
> to supply a more specific message than this? (some string that
> actuall mentions at least one of "object", "property" and
> "after initialization", for example :-))
Yes, of course. This should have been done from the beginning. I just
cut-and-pasted the error message but that doesn't mean it is a good one.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-17 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-14 9:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] fix startup crash on sparc/ppc guests Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-14 9:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qdev: allow setting properties to NULL Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-14 9:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qdev: print error message before aborting Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-17 16:30 ` Peter Maydell
2012-02-17 16:35 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-02-14 20:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] fix startup crash on sparc/ppc guests Blue Swirl
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