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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, philmd@redhat.com, alex.bennee@linaro.org,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, mreitz@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] pflash: Require backend size to match device, improve errors
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 15:09:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c5033f4-3d9f-be62-4d7e-9b5931c9aedb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190308133510.GC31583@localhost.localdomain>

On 03/08/19 14:35, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 08.03.2019 um 13:28 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
>> Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> writes:
>>> This one has got to be one of the longest bike-shedding sessions! :)
>>>
>>> I'm fine with this patch, but I could suggest two improvements.
>>>
>>> (1) When blk_getlength() fails, we could format the negative error code
>>> returned by it into the error message.
>>
>> I can do that.
> 
> By using error_setg_errno(), I assume. Not throwing away error details
> is always good.
> 
>>> (2) We could extract the common code to a new function in
>>> "hw/block/block.c". (It says "Common code for block device models" on
>>> the tin.)
>>
>> There's so much common code in these two files even before this patch...
> 
> My understanding is that hw/block/block.c contains code that is
> potentially useful to all kinds of block devices, not random code that
> two specific similar devices happen to share.

Ah, OK.

> If we want to deduplicate some code in the flash devices, without any
> expectation that other devices will use it at some point, I'd rather
> create a new source file hw/block/pflash_common.c or something like
> that.

Sure, that makes a lot of sense then.

Cheers
Laszlo

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08  6:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7] pflash: Require backend size to match device, improve errors Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 10:00 ` Alex Bennée
2019-03-08 12:16   ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 11:47 ` Laszlo Ersek
2019-03-08 12:28   ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 13:35     ` Kevin Wolf
2019-03-08 14:09       ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2019-03-08 14:26       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-03-08 14:29       ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 15:40         ` Kevin Wolf
2019-03-08 16:45           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-03-08 17:03           ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 17:18             ` Kevin Wolf
2019-03-08 18:51           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-03-09  9:20             ` Markus Armbruster
2019-03-08 14:40   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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