Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes: > On 09/04/2015 20:31, Eric Blake wrote: >>> diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c >>> index 6941a82..b3d5100 100644 >>> --- a/hw/pci/pci.c >>> +++ b/hw/pci/pci.c >>> @@ -1660,7 +1660,9 @@ PCIDevice *pci_nic_init_nofail(NICInfo *nd, PCIBus >>> *rootbus, >>> >>> res = pci_nic_init(nd, rootbus, default_model, default_devaddr, &err); >>> if (!res) { >>> - error_report_err(err); >>> + if (err) { >>> + error_report_err(err); >>> + } >>> exit(1); >> >> Doesn't this mean the program can exit without an error message, if >> pci_nic_init returns failure but failed to set err? Shouldn't you at >> least print something in that case as an else branch? > > git grep 'Unsupported NIC model' shows that the error is printed with > error_report; same for other errors produced by pci_nic_init. > > This is not beautiful compared to correct propagation of Error*, but > it's okay because -net is only used at startup. It's good enough for rc3.
Thomas, can you clean this up now 2.3 is out?