Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/armbru/tags/pull-error-2015-09-18' into staging

Error reporting patches

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# gpg: Good signature from "Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>"
# gpg:                 aka "Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>"

* remotes/armbru/tags/pull-error-2015-09-18:
  memory: Fix bad error handling in memory_region_init_ram_ptr()
  loader: Fix memory_region_init_resizeable_ram() error handling
  Fix bad error handling after memory_region_init_ram()
  error: New error_fatal
  MAINTAINERS: Add "Error reporting" entry
  error: Copy location information in error_copy()
  hmp: Allow for error message hints on HMP
  error: only prepend timestamp on stderr

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/util/qemu-option.c b/util/qemu-option.c
index b1fb57c0fc..a50eceae4a 100644
--- a/util/qemu-option.c
+++ b/util/qemu-option.c
@@ -205,10 +205,8 @@ void parse_option_size(const char *name, const char *value,
             break;
         default:
             error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, name, "a size");
-#if 0 /* conversion from qerror_report() to error_set() broke this: */
-            error_printf_unless_qmp("You may use k, M, G or T suffixes for "
-                    "kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.\n");
-#endif
+            error_append_hint(errp, "You may use k, M, G or T suffixes for "
+                    "kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes.");
             return;
         }
     } else {
@@ -648,9 +646,8 @@ QemuOpts *qemu_opts_create(QemuOptsList *list, const char *id,
         if (!id_wellformed(id)) {
             error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "id",
                        "an identifier");
-#if 0 /* conversion from qerror_report() to error_set() broke this: */
-            error_printf_unless_qmp("Identifiers consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a letter.\n");
-#endif
+            error_append_hint(errp, "Identifiers consist of letters, digits, "
+                              "'-', '.', '_', starting with a letter.");
             return NULL;
         }
         opts = qemu_opts_find(list, id);