On 03/08/19 14:35, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 08.03.2019 um 13:28 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben: >> Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> writes: >>> This one has got to be one of the longest bike-shedding sessions! :) >>> >>> I'm fine with this patch, but I could suggest two improvements. >>> >>> (1) When blk_getlength() fails, we could format the negative error code >>> returned by it into the error message. >> >> I can do that. > > By using error_setg_errno(), I assume. Not throwing away error details > is always good. > >>> (2) We could extract the common code to a new function in >>> "hw/block/block.c". (It says "Common code for block device models" on >>> the tin.) >> >> There's so much common code in these two files even before this patch... > > My understanding is that hw/block/block.c contains code that is > potentially useful to all kinds of block devices, not random code that > two specific similar devices happen to share.
Ah, OK. > If we want to deduplicate some code in the flash devices, without any > expectation that other devices will use it at some point, I'd rather > create a new source file hw/block/pflash_common.c or something like > that. Sure, that makes a lot of sense then. Cheers Laszlo
