Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/13] qemu-img: Suppress unhelpful extra errors in convert, resize

[Markus Armbruster]

John Snow <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/16/2015 09:44 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> add_old_style_options() for img_convert() and img_resize() use
>> qemu_opt_set(), which reports errors with qerror_report_err().  Its
>> error messages aren't helpful here, the caller reports one that
>> actually makes sense.  Reproducer:
>>
>>      $ qemu-img convert -B raw in.img out.img
>>      qemu-img: Invalid parameter 'backing_file'
>>      qemu-img: Backing file not supported for file format 'raw'
>>
>> Switch to qemu_opt_set_err() to get rid of the unwanted messages.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>   qemu-img.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/qemu-img.c b/qemu-img.c
>> index 7eea84a..7a806bc 100644
>> --- a/qemu-img.c
>> +++ b/qemu-img.c
[...]
>> @@ -2830,8 +2837,9 @@ static int img_resize(int argc, char **argv)
>>
>>       /* Parse size */
>>       param = qemu_opts_create(&resize_options, NULL, 0, &error_abort);
>> -    if (qemu_opt_set(param, BLOCK_OPT_SIZE, size)) {
>> -        /* Error message already printed when size parsing fails */
>> +    qemu_opt_set_err(param, BLOCK_OPT_SIZE, size, &err);
>> +    if (err) {
>> +        error_report_err(err);
>
> Creates a new warning/failure for me, if basing off of origin/master
> or kevin/block:
>
>   CC    qemu-img.o
> /home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/qemu-img.c: In function ‘img_resize’:
> /home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/qemu-img.c:2844:9: error: implicit
> declaration of function ‘error_report_err’
> [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>          error_report_err(err);
>          ^
> /home/bos/jhuston/src/qemu/qemu-img.c:2844:9: error: nested extern
> declaration of ‘error_report_err’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make: *** [qemu-img.o] Error 1
> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

You need my "[PATCH v2 01/10] error: New convenience function
error_report_err()", but I forgot to mention it in my cover letter.  My
apologies.

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