Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block migration: Allow compile time disable

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Eric Blake (address@hidden) wrote:
> On 05/03/2017 05:42 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Many users now prefer to use drive_mirror over NBD as an
> > alternative to the older migrate -b option; drive_mirror is
> > more complex to setup but gives you more options (e.g. only
> > migrating some of the disks if some of them are shared).
> > 
> > Allow the large chunk of block migration code to be compiled
> > out for those who don't use it.
> > 
> > Based on a downstream-patch we've had for a while by Jeff Cody.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > @@ -1222,6 +1226,14 @@ void qmp_migrate(const char *uri, bool has_blk, bool 
> > blk,
> >      params.blk = has_blk && blk;
> >      params.shared = has_inc && inc;
> >  
> > +#ifndef CONFIG_LIVE_BLOCK_MIGRATION
> > +    if (params.blk || params.shared) {
> > +        error_setg(errp, "QEMU compiled without old-style block migration. 
> > "
> > +                         "Use drive_mirror+NBD.");
> 
> error_setg() should not be used with '.' (it should be a single phrase,
> here you are trying to stuff in two sentences).  error_append_hint() can
> be used to supply the advice about using drive_mirror+NBD as the
> alternative.
> 
> Otherwise this looks reasonable to me.

Done as:
        error_setg(errp, "QEMU compiled without old-style block migration");
        error_append_hint(errp, "Use drive_mirror+NBD.\n");

(All the places I can see seem to have . and \n in append_hint)

Dave

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