[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] vl: exit if a bad property value is passed to -global

[Greg Kurz]

When passing '-global driver=host-powerpc64-cpu,property=compat,value=foo'
on the command line, without this patch, we get the following warning per
device (which means many lines if the guests has many cpus):

qemu-system-ppc64: Warning: can't apply global host-powerpc64-cpu.compat=foo:
    Invalid compatibility mode "foo"

... and QEMU continues execution, ignoring the property.

With this patch, we get a single line:

qemu-system-ppc64: can't apply global host-powerpc64-cpu.compat=foo:
    Invalid compatibility mode "foo"

... and QEMU exits.

The previous behavior is kept for hotplugged devices since we don't want
QEMU to exit when doing device_add.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
---
v3: - set directly the global property errp to &error_fatal
---
 vl.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index a455947b4f32..e7c2c628de29 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -2922,6 +2922,7 @@ static int global_init_func(void *opaque, QemuOpts *opts, 
Error **errp)
     g->property = qemu_opt_get(opts, "property");
     g->value    = qemu_opt_get(opts, "value");
     g->user_provided = true;
+    g->errp = &error_fatal;
     qdev_prop_register_global(g);
     return 0;
 }