From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RdKvG-0007cc-2B for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:26 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37771) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdKv7-0007Js-UY for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdKv2-000475-7E for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:05:17 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:9944) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RdKum-00040k-Ku; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:04:56 -0500 Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBLC4tCb019235 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:04:55 -0500 Received: from localhost (ovpn-113-87.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.87]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBLC4qEQ006744; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:04:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:34:52 +0530 From: Amit Shah To: Markus Armbruster Message-ID: <20111221120451.GC9080@amit-x200.redhat.com> References: <1324463877-1281-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1324463877-1281-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] scsi virtio-blk usb-msd: Clean up device init error messages X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:05:23 -0000 On (Wed) 21 Dec 2011 [11:37:57], Markus Armbruster wrote: > Replace > > error_report("DEVICE-NAME: MESSAGE"); > > by just > > error_report("MESSAGE"); > > in block device init functions. > > DEVICE-NAME is bogus in some cases: it's "scsi-disk" for device > scsi-hd and scsi-cd, "virtio-blk-pci" for virtio-blk-s390, and > "usb-msd" for usb-storage. > > There is no real need to put a device name in the message, because > error_report() points to the offending command line option already: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 --nodefaults --enable-kvm -vnc :0 -S -monitor stdio -usb -device virtio-blk-pci > upstream-qemu: -device virtio-blk-pci: virtio-blk-pci: drive property not set > upstream-qemu: -device virtio-blk-pci: Device 'virtio-blk-pci' could not be initialized > > And for a monitor command, it's obvious anyway: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 --nodefaults --enable-kvm -vnc :0 -S -monitor stdio -usb > (qemu) device_add virtio-blk-pci > virtio-blk-pci: drive property not set > Device 'virtio-blk-pci' could not be initialized > > Reported-by: Amit Shah > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Acked-by: Amit Shah Amit