Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] chardev/char.c: Check for duplicate id before creating chardev

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:27:04AM +0200, Lukas Straub wrote:
> yank_register_instance (called when creating the new chardev object)
> aborts if the instance already exists. So check for duplicate id before
> creating the new chardev to prevent this.

I feel the right answer here is for yank_register_instance to not
use abort().

Instead have it take a 'Error **errp' and report the error normally.
The caller can then propagate the errors in the same way it does
for the duplicate ID errors. If a particular caller can't handle
errors gracefully, then it can pass "&error_abort" to the
yank_register_instance() to get the same abort semantics as now.

Regards,
Daniel
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