On 4/8/19 10:36 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Command line help explicitly requested by the user should be printed
> to stdout, not stderr. We do elsewhere. Adjust -chardev to match:
> use qemu_printf() instead of error_printf(). Plain printf() would be
> wrong because we need to print to the current monitor for chardev-add
> help".
>
> Cc: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
> ---
> chardev/char.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
> index 514cd6b0c3..54724a56b1 100644
> --- a/chardev/char.c
> +++ b/chardev/char.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> #include "sysemu/sysemu.h"
> #include "qemu/config-file.h"
> #include "qemu/error-report.h"
> +#include "qemu/qemu-print.h"
> #include "chardev/char.h"
> #include "qapi/error.h"
> #include "qapi/qapi-commands-char.h"
> @@ -651,7 +652,7 @@ Chardev *qemu_chr_new_from_opts(QemuOpts *opts,
> GMainContext *context,
>
> chardev_name_foreach(help_string_append, str);
>
> - error_printf("Available chardev backend types: %s\n", str->str);
> + qemu_printf("Available chardev backend types: %s\n", str->str);
> g_string_free(str, true);
> return NULL;
> }
>
