Re: [Qemu-devel] Plan for error handling in QMP

[Anthony Liguori]

Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:43:58 -0300
> Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:22:15 -0500
>> address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > We had a violent^Wheated discussion on IRC about how to move forward
>> > with Luiz's proposed error series.  I think we reached consensus.  This
>> > note attempts to outline that.
>> 
>> This looks great to me, violent^W heated discussions can be so productive :)
>> 
>> > 
>> > Principles
>> > ----------
>> > 1. Errors should be free formed strings with a class code
>> > 
>> > 2. There should be a small number of class codes (10-15) added
>> >    strictly when there are specific users of a code.
>
> Btw, do we have a listing of those 10-15 errors already?

See the clause: "added strictly when there are specific users".

Users means consumers.  So don't add an error type until someone cares
to differientiate error reasons.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori