[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 04/19] Remove double error message for -device option parsing

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:25 +0200, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin <address@hidden> wrote:
> > qemu_opts_parse() gives a suitable error message in all failure cases
> > so we can remove the error message from the caller.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  vl.c |    5 +----
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> > index 6da83a6..ed07d50 100644
> > --- a/vl.c
> > +++ b/vl.c
> > @@ -5251,11 +5251,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> >                  add_device_config(DEV_USB, optarg);
> >                  break;
> >              case QEMU_OPTION_device:
> > -                opts = qemu_opts_parse(&qemu_device_opts, optarg, 
> > "driver");
> > -                if (!opts) {
> > -                    fprintf(stderr, "parse error: %s\n", optarg);
> > +                if (!qemu_opts_parse(&qemu_device_opts, optarg, "driver"))
> >                      exit(1);
> > -                }
> >                  break;
> >              case QEMU_OPTION_smp:
> >                  smp_parse(optarg);
> 
> This was the only use of opts variable, you have to remove it.

I did, but then re-added it when I re-based to Anthony's queue. The
chardev stuff uses it.

> And you shouldn't remove the braces (read the qemu coding style).

Yeah, I try not to, it was a reflex, I guess.

(It's also not helped that a lot of the existing code doesn't follow
this aspect of the coding style)

Cheers,
Mark.