[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] qdev: Catch attempt to attach more than one device to a netdev

[Markus Armbruster]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On 02/26/10 10:30, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> This made a lot of sense if each parser threw largely different errors.
>> Which isn't the case: we have one so far ("failed to parse"), and we
>> just encountered a use for a second.
>
> There are actually three:  parse error, not found
> (netdev=<does-not-exist>) and busy (netdev=<already-in-use>).
>
> But, yes, given the small number of error cases it makes sense to
> generate the error one layer up and not in the parsers themself.

Okay, I'll cook up v2.