From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, ehabkost@redhat.com,
michael.roth@amd.com, hreitz@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] qapi: Improve input_type_enum()'s error message
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:34:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bl3ckrbv.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211020180231.434071-1-armbru@redhat.com> (Markus Armbruster's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2021 20:02:31 +0200")
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
> The error message claims the parameter is invalid:
>
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -object qom-type=nonexistent
> qemu-system-x86_64: -object qom-type=nonexistent: Invalid parameter 'nonexistent'
>
> What's wrong is actually the *value* 'nonexistent'. Improve the
> message to
>
> qemu-system-x86_64: -object qom-type=nonexistent: Parameter 'qom-type' does not accept value 'nonexistent'
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Queued.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-26 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-20 18:02 [PATCH v2] qapi: Improve input_type_enum()'s error message Markus Armbruster
2021-10-21 8:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2021-10-26 10:34 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
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