Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spice-char: fix wrong assert condition

[Zhang Haoyu]

On 2015-01-17 19:55:16, Peter Maydell wrote:
>On 17 January 2015 at 11:52, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 17 January 2015 at 06:48, Zhang Haoyu <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> G_IO_OUT|G_IO_HUP are passed from all of the callers
> >> of chr_add_watch hooker, the assert condition MUST be
> >> changed.
>>
> > "All the callers do this currently" isn't a reason to
> > change an assert. Possible reasons to change it include:
> >  * "X is required because if we don't then things break because Y"
>>  * "it is meaningless (a programming error) to do X, because Y"
> >
> > Can you give the reasoning for changing this assert?
> > Does it apply also to other add_watch hook functions?
> > Would the assert be better at a higher level in the callstack?
>
> ...that said, I've just figured out what your patch is trying
> to fix. I think that kind of makes the point about the commit
> message not really being very clear about why the change is
>being made, though. (Should we be checking
> '(cond & G_IO_OUT) != 0'? 
I think '(cond & G_IO_OUT) != 0' is better, v2 will be posted.

> Is this a bandaid over missing
> functionality in the spice chardriver?)
I really don't know about this.
> 
> -- PMM