Re: [PATCH 0/2] qapi/qom: use correct field name when getting/setting alias properties

[Markus Armbruster]

Since patch submitters tend to submit code that works for the success
case, I like to test a few failure cases before anything else.  Gotcha:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc,pflash0=xxx qemu-system-x86_64:
    Property 'cfi.pflash01.drive' can't find value 'xxx'

The error message is misleading.

This is not a "must not commit" issue.  Fixing a regression in time for
the release at the price of a bad error message is still a win.  The bad
error message needs fixing all the same, just not necessarily before the
release.

Since mere thinking doesn't rock the release boat: any ideas on how this
could be fixed?