From 11c308b17a34932033cceca4f88b5e67009e3ebd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Armbruster Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 15:30:13 +0100 Subject: qdev-monitor: Improve error message for -device nonexistant MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Once upon a time, the error message was: qemu: -device nonexistant: Device "nonexistant" not found. Try -device '?' for a list. But progress marches on, and conversion to QError (commit 0204276) changed it into: Invalid parameter 'driver' Try with argument '?' for a list. Progress didn't stop there, of course. After a couple of iterations, we arrived at the current message (commit 6acbe4c): qemu: -device nonexistant: Parameter 'driver' expects device type Mission accomplished: this is complete mush. We've since abandoned our quest for "rich" error objects, fortunately before it turned all error messages into mush. Time to undo the damage to this one. Make it: qemu: -device nonexistant: nonexistant is not a valid device model name Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber --- qdev-monitor.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'qdev-monitor.c') diff --git a/qdev-monitor.c b/qdev-monitor.c index 177b849abb..ef63cbd7bb 100644 --- a/qdev-monitor.c +++ b/qdev-monitor.c @@ -479,7 +479,8 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts) } if (!object_class_dynamic_cast(oc, TYPE_DEVICE)) { - qerror_report(QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "driver", "device type"); + qerror_report(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, + "'%s' is not a valid device model name", driver); return NULL; } -- cgit v1.2.1