Messages in this thread | | | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:21:15 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] tools lib traceevent: Report better error message on bad function args |
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > When Jiri Olsa was writing a function callback for > scsi_trace_parse_cdb(), he thought that the traceevent library had a > bug in it because he was getting this error: > > Error: expected ')' but read ',' > Error: expected ')' but read ',' > Error: expected ')' but read ',' > Error: expected ')' but read ',' > > But in truth, he didn't have the write number of arguments for the > function callback, and the error was the library detecting the > discrepancy. A better error message would have prevented the confusion: > > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout has more > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_start has more > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_error has more > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' only expects 2 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_done has more > > Or > > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout only uses 3 > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_start only uses 3 > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_error only uses 3 > Error: function 'scsi_trace_parse_cdb()' expects 4 arguments but event scsi_dispatch_cmd_done only uses 3
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Thanks, Namhyung
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