Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 7/7] libxl: libxl_tmem functions improving coding style

[Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 15:31 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04:06PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 20, Paulina Szubarczyk wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > In accordance with CODING_SYTLE:
> > >  - Use 'r' for return values to functions whose return values are
> > > a
> > >    different error space (like xc_tmem_control, xc_tmem_auth)
> > > 
> > > libxc functions are supposed to, on failure, set errno and alwas
> > > return -1 
> > > which is the value stored in 'r', therfore use LOG() instead
> > > LOGEV() 
> > > with the 'r' value since the error code is always -1.
> > Shouldnt in this case 'LOGEV' be replaced with 'LOGE' to get errno
> > printed? Plain 'LOG' does not seem to print errno.
> > 
> Agreed.  We should use LOGEV here.
> 
You mean LOGE, don't you? :-)

I think it was me that suggested dropping LOGEV in favour of LOG, and I
agree that I should have suggested LOGE. Sorry for that.

TBF, I seem to find both cases in libxl source code (i.e., we use both
LOG and LOGE to log error after an xc_* call), but I agree that, since
libxc sets errno, LOGE is the better, and we should try to converge to
always using that one.

Regards,
Dario
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