Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] baum: Truncate braille device size to 84x1

[Eric Blake]

On 12/10/2017 06:19 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Baum device bigger than 84 do not actually exist, some guest drivers
> would be upset by such sizes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <address@hidden>
> ---
>  chardev/baum.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

> @@ -239,6 +239,12 @@ static int baum_deferred_init(BaumChardev *baum)
>          brlapi_perror("baum: brlapi__getDisplaySize");
>          return 0;
>      }
> +    if (baum->y > 1) {
> +        baum->y = 1;
> +    }
> +    if (baum->x > 84) {
> +        baum->x = 84;
> +    }

Is magic clamping desirable, or is it better to make it a hard error if
the user configured a size that is not possible?

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org

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