Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] QMP: Add 'reason' member to the BLOCK_IO_ERROR event

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/29/2010 12:30 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:24:29 -0500
> Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
>    
> > On 04/28/2010 03:32 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >      
> > > It's a parsable errno string representation, this is needed
> > > because some management tools want to base their action on
> > > the error cause.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino<address@hidden>
> > >
> > >        
> > Does anyone differentiate beyond ENOSPC and EIO?
> >      
>   For this specific case, I guess not.
>
>   But this general solution is also needed in other places like
> savevm, loadvm and delvm I was working (and sent) an RFC last week,
> also I think other events and errors might need this in the near future.
>
>   IOW, I expect this to be a QMP idiom.
>    

I think that's a bit of a crutch.  What's the point of QError if it's 
just encapsulating errno's?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori