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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Changing error message of QMP 'migrate_set_down
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Changing error message of QMP 'migrate_set_downtime' to seconds |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:26:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> On 02/17/2017 01:01 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
>
>>>> 2000000)) {
>>>> + (params->downtime_limit < 0 ||
>>>> + params->downtime_limit > MAX_MIGRATE_SET_DOWNTIME)) {
>>>> error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
>>>> "downtime_limit",
>>>> - "an integer in the range of 0 to 2000000
>>>> milliseconds");
>>>> + "an integer in the range of 0 to 2000 seconds");
>>> Perhaps you could use %d and set MAX_MIGRATE_SET_DOWNTIME to 2000?
>>> Though perhaps the migration maintainers are okay with the patch as is.
>>
>> I did that at first but I got errors on "error_setg" about the extra
>> parameter.
>
> Ah, right, because QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE is a macro that expands
> to a fixed printf-style format string where you have to know how many
> exact arguments it further expects. The only way around that is to
> open-code the error message you want, instead of forcing the use of the
> awkward macro.
Go ahead and open-code whenever that results in better error messages.