On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 11:10:10AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 02/03/2014 10:52 AM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:08:32PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >> Some cleanups around serial chardevs and miscellaneous things I've
> >> found inconsistent or not very clean.
> >
> > A few comments below, I'd tend to split at least the bigger bits in
> > separate patches to avoid a bunch of unrelated changes in a single commit
> >
> > Christophe
>
> I agree - please break up into smaller pieces, since it makes
> backporting easier (not all the problems being cleaned here were
> introduced in the same release).
>
OK, will do, I just missed your mail when replying to Christophe.
> >>
> >> - switch (src->type) {
> >> + switch ((enum virDomainChrType)src->type) {
> >
> > Not sure this one improves things, the type of the enum is in the
> > namespacing of the values anyway (VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_*), and it's only
> > done for a minority of the switch() calls in domain_conf.c
>
> Adding the explicit cast DOES help - it makes the compiler flag a
> warning (which with -Werror is fatal) if the user adds an enum value but
> forgets to update this switch statement.
>
>
> >> case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_STDIO:
> >> case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_SPICEVMC:
> >> + case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_LAST:
> >> /* nada */
> >> return true;
> >> }
> >>
> >> - /* This should happen only on new,
> >> - * yet unhandled type */
> >> + /* Even though gcc is able to detect that all possible values are
> >> + * handled in the switch above, it is not capable of realizing
> >> + * there isn't any possibility of escaping that switch without
> >> + * return. So for the sake of clean compilation, there has to be
> >> + * a return here */
> >>
> >> + /* coverity[dead_error_begin] */
> >> return false;
>
>
> Rather than a big long hairy comment here, I'd go with the simpler:
>
> ...
> case VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_TYPE_LAST:
> /* nada */
> break;
> }
>
> return true;
>
> so that at least one case falls out of the switch statement, and then
> the ending return is no longer dead code.
>
>
> >>
> >> #define NET_MODEL_CHARS \
> >> - "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ091234567890_-"
> >> + "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_-"
>
> Wonder what happened to cause the duplication in the original?
>
I can only guess that it might have been a change from 0-9, but I
can't find anyone better than you to ask ;)
v2 coming up
Martin
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