[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/3] block: Error parameter for opening/creating images

[Max Reitz]

This RFC adds an Error ** parameter to bdrv_open, bdrv_file_open,
bdrv_create and the respective functions provided by a block driver.

This results in more specific error information than just -errno provided
to the user when opening or creating images (disregarding the fact that
block drivers often already use error_report, which is generally changed
to error_setg through this patch).

The last patch in this series changes the qcow2 block driver to set an
example of usage in a block driver.

Note that several I/O tests break by applying this RFC since they expect
different error messages (generally, previously, an error message on
image opening/creation consisted of two lines; the first of which would be
generated by the driver through error_report, the second by the block
layer itself through strerror(-ret); this patch is designed to merge these
two lines into a single one). This applies to the tests 49, 51, 54 and 60.

Max Reitz (3):
  bdrv: Use "Error" for opening images
  block: Error parameter for opening functions
  qcow2: Use Error parameter

 block.c                   | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 block/blkdebug.c          |   5 +-
 block/blkverify.c         |   7 +-
 block/bochs.c             |   3 +-
 block/cloop.c             |   3 +-
 block/cow.c               |  10 +--
 block/dmg.c               |   3 +-
 block/mirror.c            |   5 +-
 block/nbd.c               |   3 +-
 block/parallels.c         |   3 +-
 block/qcow.c              |  10 +--
 block/qcow2.c             | 143 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 block/qed.c               |  13 ++--
 block/raw-posix.c         |  18 +++--
 block/raw_bsd.c           |   8 ++-
 block/sheepdog.c          |  10 +--
 block/snapshot.c          |   2 +-
 block/vdi.c               |   6 +-
 block/vhdx.c              |   3 +-
 block/vmdk.c              |  11 ++--
 block/vpc.c               |   6 +-
 block/vvfat.c             |   7 +-
 blockdev.c                |  30 ++++-----
 include/block/block.h     |  11 ++--
 include/block/block_int.h |   9 ++-
 qemu-img.c                |  39 +++++------
 qemu-io.c                 |  14 ++--
 qemu-nbd.c                |   6 +-
 28 files changed, 343 insertions(+), 209 deletions(-)

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