From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55537) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYVyv-0008Uv-Lg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:06:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYVyq-0002Fw-Qx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:06:53 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([119.145.14.66]:64483) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XYVyq-0002Eo-4a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:06:48 -0400 Message-ID: <542912FE.8020900@huawei.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 16:06:22 +0800 From: zhanghailiang MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1411108984-4380-1-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com> <1411108984-4380-2-git-send-email-zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com> <87bnpyvpdq.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <87bnpyvpdq.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 1/2] dump: let dump_error return error info to caller List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster Cc: lersek@redhat.com, lcapitulino@redhat.com, luonengjun@huawei.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peter.huangpeng@huawei.com On 2014/9/29 15:48, Markus Armbruster wrote: > zhanghailiang writes: > >> The second parameter of dump_error is unused, but one purpose of >> using this function is to report the error info. >> >> Use error_set to return the error info to the caller. >> >> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang > > The commit message doesn't explain this patch's benefit clearly. > Suggest: > > dump: Propagate errors into qmp_dump_guest_memory() > > The code calls dump_error() on error, and even passes it a suitable > message. However, the message is thrown away, and its callers pass > up only success/failure. All qmp_dump_guest_memory() can do is set > a generic error. > > Propagate the errors properly, so qmp_dump_guest_memory() can return > a more useful error. > > With a commit message like that: > > Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster > > OK, Will fix like that, and submit V7, thanks very much;)