[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 6/9] QError: Add qdev not found error

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/16/2009 12:44 AM, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> How about this (basically what Paolo suggested):
>
> { "error": { "code": 12,
>               "desc": "device %{bus}:%{address} already open",
>               "data": { "bus": 0, "address": 12 } } }
>
> 'desc'*may*  be used by the client, or may be replaced with a localized
> version.

I would say that desc need not go on the wire too.  The client might not 
even want to show the same string to the user, for example they may want 
to say "mouse already" open.

The "device %{bus}:%{address} already open" would be strictly inside 
QEMU, for consumption of the monitor interface.  Of course since the 
server is in QEMU too it makes sense to consolidate it in the same 
struct, but this does not mean that everything in the struct needs to go 
on the wire.

Paolo