On 05.02.15 10:34, Markus Armbruster wrote: > We call try_create_xics() to create a "xics-kvm". If it fails, we > call it again to fall back to plain "xics". > > try_create_xics() uses qdev_init(). qdev_init()'s error handling has > an unwanted side effect: it calls qerror_report_err(), which prints to > stderr. Looks like an error, but isn't. > > In QMP context, it would stash the error in the monitor instead, > making the QMP command fail. Fortunately, it's only called from board > initialization, never in QMP context. > > Clean up by cutting out the qdev_init() middle-man: set property > "realized" directly. > > While there, improve the error message when we can't satisfy an > explicit user request for "xics-kvm", and exit(1) instead of abort(). > Simplify the abort when we can't create "xics". > > Cc: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> > Cc: qemu-...@nongnu.org > Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Thanks, applied patches 1 and 2 to ppc-next. Alex