Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qemu-io: Let command functions return error code

[Max Reitz]

On 2018-04-30 17:08, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/28/2018 09:41 AM, Max Reitz wrote:
>> This is basically what everything else in the qemu code base does, so we
>> can do it here, too.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>   include/qemu-io.h |   4 +-
>>   qemu-io-cmds.c    | 346
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>   qemu-io.c         |  34 ++++--
>>   3 files changed, 227 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/qemu-io.h b/include/qemu-io.h
>> index 06cdfbf660..380724ad59 100644
>> --- a/include/qemu-io.h
>> +++ b/include/qemu-io.h
>> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>>     #define CMD_FLAG_GLOBAL ((int)0x80000000) /* don't iterate "args" */
>>   -typedef void (*cfunc_t)(BlockBackend *blk, int argc, char **argv);
>> +typedef int (*cfunc_t)(BlockBackend *blk, int argc, char **argv);
> 
> Quite a bit of churn on the definition here; squashing 1 and 2 might
> make for a smaller patch.  But I agree that doing it this way (2
> separate patches) forces us to audit (with the compiler's help) that all
> callers are caught and adjusted to the new semantics.
> 
> However, a comment before the typedef would be useful, so that writing a
> new command knows what semantics it must provide.  It can be as simple as:
> 
> /* Implement a qemu-io command.
>  * Operate on @blk using @argc/@argv as the command's arguments, and
>  * return 0 on success or negative errno on failure.
>  */

Yep, will do.

> With a comment added,
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Thanks!

Max

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