error: Improve documentation of error_append_hint()
Suggested-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1502359588-29451-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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@ -230,6 +230,12 @@ void error_prepend(Error **errp, const char *fmt, ...)
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/*
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* Append a printf-style human-readable explanation to an existing error.
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* If the error is later reported to a human user with
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* error_report_err() or warn_report_err(), the hints will be shown,
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* too. If it's reported via QMP, the hints will be ignored.
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* Intended use is adding helpful hints on the human user interface,
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* e.g. a list of valid values. It's not for clarifying a confusing
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* error message.
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* @errp may be NULL, but not &error_fatal or &error_abort.
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* Trivially the case if you call it only after error_setg() or
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* error_propagate().
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@ -267,11 +273,13 @@ void error_free_or_abort(Error **errp);
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/*
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* Convenience function to warn_report() and free @err.
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* The report includes hints added with error_append_hint().
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*/
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void warn_report_err(Error *err);
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/*
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* Convenience function to error_report() and free @err.
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* The report includes hints added with error_append_hint().
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*/
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void error_report_err(Error *err);
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