Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 8/8] error: Add a 'error: ' prefix to error_report()

[Max Reitz]

On 2017-07-12 14:27, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Max Reitz <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2017-07-11 14:07, Alistair Francis wrote:
>>> As we don't regard error messages as a stable API the let's add a
>>> 'error: ' prefix to the original error_report() messages.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <address@hidden>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  util/qemu-error.c | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> This breaks quite a few qemu-iotests.
> 
> Hmmm... Ok, I'll have to dig into that.
> 
> I'm traveling at the moment so I won't get a chance to fix this. I'm
> going to send the next version of this series, but remove this patch
> and I can look at adding it again when I get back. There is already a
> few things that have been pointed out that need to be fixed after this
> patch set.
> 
> Do people think we should add this prefix or leave the error messages
> as is? I haven't heard a definitive answer if people think this is the
> right path to take.

I don't really mind either way.  But it probably is a good idea to
separate this one patch from this series.

Max

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