BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> writes:
On Tue, 21 Apr 2020, Markus Armbruster wrote:
BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> writes:
On Mon, 20 Apr 2020, Markus Armbruster wrote:
The Error ** argument must be NULL, &error_abort, &error_fatal, or a
pointer to a variable containing NULL. Passing an argument of the
latter kind twice without clearing it in between is wrong: if the
first call sets an error, it no longer points to NULL for the second
call.
spd_data_generate() can pass @errp to error_setg() more than once when
it adjusts both memory size and type. Harmless, because no caller
passes anything that needs adjusting. Until the previous commit,
sam460ex passed types that needed adjusting, but not sizes.
spd_data_generate()'s contract is rather awkward:
If everything's fine, return non-null and don't set an error.
Else, if memory size or type need adjusting, return non-null and
set an error describing the adjustment.
Else, return null and set an error reporting why no data can be
generated.
Its callers treat the error as a warning even when null is returned.
They don't create the "smbus-eeprom" device then. Suspicious.
The idea here again is to make it work if there's a way it could work
rather than throw back an error to user and bail. This is for user
convenience in the likely case the user knows nothing about the board
or SPD data restrictions.
We're in perfect agreement that the user of QEMU should not need to know
anything about memory type and number of banks. QEMU should pick a
sensible configuration for any memory size it supports.
I though it could be useful to warn the users when QEMU had to fix up
some values to notify them that what they get may not be what they
expect and can then know why.
*If* QEMU "fixed up" the user's configuration, then QEMU should indeed
warn the user.
But it doesn't fix up anything here. This broken code is unused.
If the message really annoys you you can
remove it but I think it can be useful. I just think your real problem
with it is that Error can't support it so it's easier to remove the
warning than fixing Error or use warn_report instead.
It's indeed easier to remove broken unused code than to try fixing it.
YAGNI.
You seem to disagree with this
Here's what I actually disagree with:
1. QEMU warning the user about its choice of memory type, but only
sometimes. Why warn? There is nothing wrong, and there is nothing the
user can do to avoid the condition that triggers the warning.
The memory size that triggers the warning is specified by the user so
the user can do someting about it.
There is no way to trigger the warning. If we dropped PATCH 1 instead
of fixing it as I did in v2, then the only way to trigger the warning is
-M sam460ex -m 64 or -m 32, and the only way to avoid it is to don't do
that.
Why would a user care whether he gets DDR or DDR2 memory?
2. QEMU changing the user's memory size. Yes, I understand that's an
attempt to be helpful, but I prefer my tools not to second-guess my
intent.
I agree with that and also hate Windows's habit of trying to be more
intelligent than the user and prefer the Unix way however the average
users of QEMU (from my perpective, who wants to run Amiga like OSes
typically on Windows and for the most part not knowing what they are
doing) are already intimidated by the messy QEMU command line
interface and will specify random values and complain or go away if it
does not work so making their life a little easier is not
useless. These users (or any CLI users) are apparently not relevant
from your point of view but they do exist and I think should be
supported better.
This theoretical. Remember, we're talking about unused code. Proof:
$ ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -M sam460ex -m 4096
qemu-system-ppc: Max 1 banks of 2048 ,1024 ,512 ,256 ,128 ,64 ,32 MB
DIMM/bank supported
qemu-system-ppc: Possible valid RAM size: 2048
I figure commit a0258e4afa "ppc/{ppc440_bamboo, sam460ex}: drop RAM size
fixup" removed the only uses. If you disagree with it, take it up with
Igor, please.