Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] error: report hints on stderr when no monitor

[Markus Armbruster]

Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:23 PM Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Report the error hint when running from the command line and reaching an
>>
>> Not just any hint, only the ones printed with error_printf_unless_qmp().
>>
>> > error, ex:
>> >
>> > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1Z
>> > qemu-system-x86_64: -m 1Z: Parameter 'size' expects a size
>> > You may use k, M, G or T suffixes for kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes
>> and terabytes.
>>
>> The last line is due to this patch.
>>
>> Suggest to rephrase the commit message:
>>
>>     error: Report certain hints on stderr when no monitor
>>
>>     Hints printed with error_printf_unless_qmp() are suppressed outside
>>     monitor context.  Reproducer:
>>
>>         $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1Z
>>         qemu-system-x86_64: -m 1Z: Parameter 'size' expects a size
>>
>>     Print to stderr instead.  The reproducer now additionally prints:
>>
>>         You may use k, M, G or T suffixes for kilobytes, megabytes,
>> gigabytes and terabytes.
>>
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
>> > ---
>> >  monitor.c | 2 ++
>> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
>> > index a82f547488..e5cc11b5a5 100644
>> > --- a/monitor.c
>> > +++ b/monitor.c
>> > @@ -3973,6 +3973,8 @@ void error_vprintf_unless_qmp(const char *fmt,
>> va_list ap)
>> >  {
>> >      if (cur_mon && !monitor_cur_is_qmp()) {
>> >          monitor_vprintf(cur_mon, fmt, ap);
>> > +    } else if (!cur_mon) {
>> > +        vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
>> >      }
>> >  }
>>
>> Preferably with an improved commit message:
>> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
>>
>
> Markus, as maintainer of monitor.c, could you take the patch with the
> commit message modified?

Yes.  It's in my error-next branch now.