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Re: [Xen-devel] xen_disk qdevification (was: [PATCH 0/3] Performance improvements for xen_disk v2)



Am 12.12.2018 um 09:59 hat Olaf Hering geschrieben:
> On Fri, Nov 02, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> 
> > A while ago, a downstream patch review found out that there are some QMP
> > commands that would immediately crash if a xen_disk device were present
> > because of the lacking qdevification. This is not the code quality
> > standard I envision for QEMU. It's time for non-qdev devices to go.
> 
> Do you have that backwards by any chance? IMO the presence of assert()
> contributes to bad code quality, not the drivers that trigger those
> asserts.

You like shooting the messenger, it seems? Bugs aren't bad, only
catching them is?

But anyway, in this case, I seem to remember it was a plain old
segfault, not a failed assertion.

Kevin

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