Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH] s390-ccw: only print boot menu error if -boot menu=on was specified

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:19:20 -0500
"Collin L. Walling" <address@hidden> wrote:

Nit: make the prefix s390x/ipl:, as this is not directly in the bios.

> It is possible that certain QEMU configurations may not
> create an IPLB (such as when -kernel is provided). In
> this case, a misleading error message will be printed
> stating that the "boot menu is not supported for this
> device type".
> 
> To amend this, only print this message iff boot menu=on
> was provided on the commandline. Otherwise, return silently.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Collin L. Walling <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/s390x/ipl.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/s390x/ipl.c b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> index 798e99a..c4addb5 100644
> --- a/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> +++ b/hw/s390x/ipl.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,9 @@ static void s390_ipl_set_boot_menu(S390IPLState *ipl)
>      case S390_IPL_TYPE_QEMU_SCSI:
>          break;
>      default:
> -        error_report("boot menu is not supported for this device type.");
> +        if (boot_menu) {
> +            error_report("boot menu is not supported for this device type.");
> +        }
>          return;
>      }
>  

This change makes sense and works as I'd expect (although the message
is still slightly odd in the -kernel case, but I can't think of
anything better.)

Will you also do a followup removing the trailing punctuation? :)