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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 27/35] vnc: Clean up error reporting in vnc_i


From: Gerd Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 27/35] vnc: Clean up error reporting in vnc_init_func()
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:52:56 +0200
User-agent: NeoMutt/20180716

> >> +        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> > Shall we use error_propagate(errp, local_err, ("Failed to init VNC
> > server: ");
> > like vnc_display_open does?
> 
> I don't know.  
> 
> The error reporting is somewhat poor around here.  Consider:
> 
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -display vnc=:0,share=nope
>     qemu-system-x86_64: -display vnc=:0,share=nope: Failed to start VNC 
> server: unknown vnc share= option
> 
> The "Failed to start VNC server: " prefix doesn't really add value.

Indeed.

> Gerd, what do you think?

I'd keep the messages short.

cheers,
  Gerd




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