On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:27:37 +0530
pradeep <psuriset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to add a device to guest from upstream qemu monitor using
> "device_add".
Are you developing a new device or does it happen with existing ones?
If it's the latter, can you describe steps to reproduce it?
> Unknowingly i try to add already registered devices from qemu
> monitor, my qemu monitor is aborted. I don't see a reason to kill
> monitor. I think abort() is a bit rough. we need a better way to handle
> it. If a user try to add a already registered device, qemu should
> convey this to user saying that, this device already registered and an
> error message should be fine than aborting qemu.
>
>
> QLIST_FOREACH(block, &ram_list.blocks, next) {
> if (!strcmp(block->idstr, new_block->idstr)) {
> fprintf(stderr, "RAMBlock \"%s\" already registered,
> abort!\n",
> new_block->idstr);
> abort();
> }
>
>
> If i return some other value in above code, instead of abort(), I
> would need change the code for every device, which i dont want to.
> Is there a way to check, if device is already enrolled or not in the very beginning of "device_add"
> call.
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Pradeep
>
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