From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP command qom-new
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:18:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8wMaf46S_YRq4w7qVVaa++kqRW=JWKsJj6yW+0A05T9g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBE324C.70407@codemonkey.ws>
On 24 May 2012 14:06, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> There are very few places where errors can be handled gracefully. They are
> exceptions and can be treated as such.
>
> I think it's far better for the QOM infrastructure to assert when it detects
> something bad because 99% of the users of QOM do not even attempt to handle
> errors gracefully
Last time I was trying to argue for keeping the "create, set properties,
realize" interface for devices/objects as simple as possible you wanted
it to have an error-return interface rather than asserting...
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-24 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-24 11:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP command qom-new Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/2] qom: Give type_get_by_name() external linkage Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 2/2] qmp: New command qom-new Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 11:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-24 12:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:01 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 13:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-24 14:12 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:48 ` Igor Mammedov
2012-05-24 14:01 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 14:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 15:33 ` Igor Mammedov
2012-05-24 14:04 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 14:24 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 15:15 ` Michael Roth
2012-05-24 12:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] QMP " Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 13:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 13:18 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2012-05-24 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 14:23 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24 14:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-24 14:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-24 14:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2012-05-24 14:31 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-24 14:48 ` Markus Armbruster
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAFEAcA8wMaf46S_YRq4w7qVVaa++kqRW=JWKsJj6yW+0A05T9g@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=peter.maydell@linaro.org \
--cc=afaerber@suse.de \
--cc=anthony@codemonkey.ws \
--cc=armbru@redhat.com \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).