Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block-migration: deprecate block migration for the 1.2 release

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:45:17 -0500
Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:

> Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:32:31 -0500
> > Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> To be replaced with live block copy.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> >> ---
> >>  migration.c |    9 +++++++++
> >>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/migration.c b/migration.c
> >> index 653a3c1..babccf4 100644
> >> --- a/migration.c
> >> +++ b/migration.c
> >> @@ -482,10 +482,19 @@ void qmp_migrate(const char *uri, bool has_blk, bool 
> >> blk,
> >>      MigrationParams params;
> >>      const char *p;
> >>      int ret;
> >> +    static bool suppress_deprecation_message;
> >>  
> >>      params.blk = blk;
> >>      params.shared = inc;
> >>  
> >> +    if (blk && !suppress_deprecation_message) {
> >> +        qerror_report(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR,
> >> +                      "Block migration is deprecated.  "
> >> +                      "See http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LiveBlockCopy "
> >> +                      "for an alternative syntax.");
> >
> > Why not error_set()?
> 
> Because we fall through (we don't fail).  This is just a warning.
> 
> If you error_set(), then the migration command fails.  We don't want it
> to fail.
> 
> I guess qerror_report will do that too :-(
> 
> I'll change it to an fprintf :-((

Yes, I'd also add a monitor_printf() call to hmp_migrate() and a note to
the schema.