Re: [PATCH v12 0/8] error: auto propagated local_err part I

[Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/7/20 11:50 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> To speed things up, I'm taking the liberty to respin Vladimir's series
> with my documentation amendments.
>
> After my documentation work, I'm very much inclined to rename
> ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE() to ERRP_GUARD().  The fact that it propagates
> below the hood is detail.  What matters to its users is that it lets
> them use @errp more freely.  Thoughts?
I like it - the shorter name is easier to type.

(The rename is a mechanical change, so if we agree to it, we should do 
it up front to minimize the churn to all the functions where we add use 
of the macro)
> Based-on: Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-1-armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Available from my public repository https://repo.or.cz/qemu/armbru.git
> on branch error-auto.
>
> v12: (based on "[PATCH v4 00/45] Less clumsy error checking")
> 01: Comments merged properly with recent commit "error: Document Error
> API usage rules", and edited for clarity.  Put ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE()
> before its helpers, and touch up style.
> 01-08: Commit messages tweaked
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