Re: [PATCH v10 1/9] error: auto propagated local_err

[Greg Kurz <groug@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 07:21:03 +0200
Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Greg Kurz <groug@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:16:17 +0300
> > Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Introduce a new ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE macro, to be used at start of
> >> functions with an errp OUT parameter.
> >> 
> >> It has three goals:
> >> 
> >> 1. Fix issue with error_fatal and error_prepend/error_append_hint: user
> >> can't see this additional information, because exit() happens in
> >> error_setg earlier than information is added. [Reported by Greg Kurz]
> >> 
> >
> > I have more of these coming and I'd really like to use ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE.
> >
> > It seems we have a consensus on the macro itself but this series is gated
> > by the conversion of the existing code base.
> >
> > What about merging this patch separately so that people can start using
> > it at least ?
> 
> Please give me a few more days to finish the work I feel should go in
> before the conversion.  With any luck, Vladimir can then rebase /
> recreate the conversion easily, and you can finally use the macro for
> your own work.
> 

Sure. Thanks.