Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH qom-next 2/7] qom: Add get_id

[Eric Blake]

On 06/08/2012 01:44 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Since qdev->id is NULL 90% of the time, I don't think a user can
> realistically rely on it.  I don't think changing the type of the data
> in the error is going to be a problem.
> 
> Doesn't libvirt ignore the contents of an error object?

Libvirt tries to parse the contents of an error object in order to
reconstruct the most user-friendly message possible for libvirt's error
message.  There's already some special-casing in libvirt's code, and we
can probably add more if you change the layout of particular errors.

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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