John Snow <[email protected]> writes:
> On 01/26/2017 10:09 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> We've traditionally rejected orphans here and there, but not
>> systematically. For instance, the sun4m machines have an onboard SCSI
>> HBA (bus=0), and have always rejected bus>0. Other machines with an
>> onboard SCSI HBA don't.
>>
>> Commit a66c9dc made all orphans trigger a warning, and the previous
>> commit turned this into an error. The checks "here and there" are now
>> redundant. Drop them.
>>
>> Note that the one in mips_jazz.c was wrong: it rejected bus > MAX_FD,
>> but MAX_FD is the number of floppy drives per bus.
>>
>> Error messages change from
>>
>> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=ide,bus=2
>> qemu-system-x86_64: Too many IDE buses defined (3 > 2)
>> $ qemu-system-mips64 -M magnum,accel=qtest -drive if=floppy,bus=2,id=fd1
>> qemu: too many floppy drives
>> $ qemu-system-sparc -M LX -drive if=scsi,bus=1
>> qemu: too many SCSI bus
>>
>> to
>>
>> $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive if=ide,bus=2
>> qemu-system-x86_64: -drive if=ide,bus=2: machine type does not support
>> this drive
>> $ qemu-system-mips64 -M magnum,accel=qtest -drive if=floppy,bus=2,id=fd1
>> qemu-system-mips64: -drive if=floppy,bus=2,id=fd1: machine type does not
>> support this drive
>> $ qemu-system-sparc -M LX -drive if=scsi,bus=1
>> qemu-system-sparc: -drive if=scsi,bus=1: machine type does not support
>> this drive
>>
>
> Hm, that's a lot less helpful, isn't it? Can we augment with hints?
The message itself may be less specific, but it now comes with a precise
location. Personally, I'd even find
qemu-system-sparc: -drive if=scsi,bus=1: *mumble* *mumble*
more helpful than
qemu: too many SCSI bus
because the former tells me *which* of the options is bad. We tend to
have lots and lots of them.
The deleted special case errors cover only a minority of "orphan"
-drive. If these cases need improvement, then so will the general case.
If you can come up with a hint that makes the general case message more
useful, I'm more than happy to squash it into PATCH 6.
