From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42617C432C0 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D2BC2251D for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="PkDbiE5m" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0D2BC2251D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([::1]:57620 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXPcf-0005Ow-1b for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:02:17 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iXPae-0003ZB-IM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:00:14 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXPac-0000JQ-Uy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:00:12 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([205.139.110.120]:45905 helo=us-smtp-1.mimecast.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iXPac-0000Ih-QC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:00:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1574254809; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=rzXyhKN6JI07guKLYgMixvCs/MyYGuc0l5Klz8/DR+E=; b=PkDbiE5m5gdAA9bs68o3nr6spiUm26r1A3BvLxF1cMVy5tuCSA5nSS4pi2pz1etyy53qho PRCLnUrG94l90auThK7WScsbNocWXGYPxv3XIJII3cdmiqwo54WNTusGYSvPJrarP6cxJb 16Qg750AbZStWm6UCiI+/K5yXsso2Gs= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-12-tkrQfcfNNXSPOST1rxoQEw-1; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 08:00:03 -0500 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx06.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1397191220; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:59:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.3.116.221] (ovpn-116-221.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.116.221]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2DEAB69300; Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [RFC v5 000/126] error: auto propagated local_err To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" References: <20191011160552.22907-1-vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> <538354c8-7ba9-8b1c-476e-5733c418207b@virtuozzo.com> From: Eric Blake Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: <606dbe22-0d1e-66bb-aba9-681ca7961623@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 06:59:15 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <538354c8-7ba9-8b1c-476e-5733c418207b@virtuozzo.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.16 X-MC-Unique: tkrQfcfNNXSPOST1rxoQEw-1 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 205.139.110.120 X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi , Jeff Cody , Jan Kiszka , Alberto Garcia , Hailiang Zhang , "qemu-block@nongnu.org" , Aleksandar Rikalo , Halil Pasic , =?UTF-8?Q?Herv=c3=a9_Poussineau?= , Anthony Perard , Samuel Thibault , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= , Anthony Green , Laurent Vivier , Eduardo Habkost , Xie Changlong , Peter Lieven , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Beniamino Galvani , Eric Auger , Alex Williamson , Ronnie Sahlberg , John Snow , Richard Henderson , Kevin Wolf , Andrew Jeffery , Chris Wulff , Subbaraya Sundeep , Michael Walle , "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" , Bastian Koppelmann , Igor Mammedov , Fam Zheng , Peter Maydell , "sheepdog@lists.wpkg.org" , Matthew Rosato , David Hildenbrand , Palmer Dabbelt , Thomas Huth , Max Filippov , Hannes Reinecke , Stefano Stabellini , "Gonglei \(Arei\)" , Liu Yuan , Artyom Tarasenko , Eric Farman , Amit Shah , Stefan Weil , Greg Kurz , Yuval Shaia , "qemu-s390x@nongnu.org" , "qemu-arm@nongnu.org" , Peter Chubb , =?UTF-8?Q?C=c3=a9dric_Le_Goater?= , Stafford Horne , "qemu-riscv@nongnu.org" , Cornelia Huck , Aleksandar Markovic , Aurelien Jarno , Paul Burton , Sagar Karandikar , Paul Durrant , Jason Wang , Gerd Hoffmann , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Guan Xuetao , Ari Sundholm , Juan Quintela , Michael Roth , Christian Borntraeger , Joel Stanley , Jason Dillaman , Antony Pavlov , "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" , "integration@gluster.org" , Laszlo Ersek , "Richard W.M. Jones" , Andrew Baumann , Max Reitz , Denis Lunev , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Mark Cave-Ayland , Vincenzo Maffione , Marek Vasut , "armbru@redhat.com" , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , Alistair Francis , Pavel Dovgalyuk , Giuseppe Lettieri , Luigi Rizzo , David Gibson , Tony Krowiak , =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2e_Berrang=c3=a9?= , Xiao Guangrong , Pierre Morel , Wen Congyang , Jean-Christophe Dubois , Paolo Bonzini , Stefan Berger Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 11/20/19 3:50 AM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote: > Okay... >=20 > I think that: >=20 > 1. A lot of efforts (not only my, I think reviewing is already exceeded g= eneration efforts) > are made, it would be sad to lose them. >=20 > 2. It's safe enough to apply only part of generated patches: we just fix = error_abort/error_fatal > in more popular subsystems, what's wrong with that? Why not to cover = 80% cases by 20% efforts? >=20 > 3. It's obviously impossible to merge the whole series. A lot of time pas= sed, series diverges. >=20 >=20 > So I propose the following plan: >=20 > 1. I resend small separate series of preparation patches per maintainer. = They are good anyway. >=20 > 2. We commit patch with macro (changing MUST to SHOULD in documentation) = and coccinelle script. > (or that may be combined with the first series from [3.]) >=20 > 3. When one of preparations taken to maintainer's tree, I send generated = patches for > its maintainer. I'd still prefer waiting for direction from Markus. We've been tied up=20 by other things (KVM Forum, 4.2 release), but now that we are in freeze,=20 this is actually a GOOD time for Markus to finally get back to this=20 series, and there is going to be less rebasing needed if we can apply=20 the entire cleanup right as 5.0 development opens in a couple of weeks. >=20 >=20 > If no objections during a week, I'll start that plan, hope someone will s= upport it. >=20 >=20 --=20 Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org