Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] Add Error **errp for xen_host_pci_device_get()

[Cao jin]

On 01/05/2016 06:40 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016, Cao jin wrote:
[...]
> This is true, however I think that relying on it is error prone: in a
> couple of years from now somebody might change the call sequence without
> updating the error handling (easy to forget), causing QEMU to crash on
> error. I think it is safer not to rely on errp != NULL.

I see, sounds reasonable

>
[...]

> I think we only need to use a local Error variable when we want to check
> for the returned error, in cases such as:
>
> if (*errp) {
>
> In other cases, when we are not interested in *errp, we can simply
> propagate the error, like you have done in your patches.

Ok, will fix it

> .

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Yours Sincerely,

Cao Jin