Claudio Fontana authored Sep 29, 2022 and Paolo Bonzini committed Nov 06, 2022

improve error handling during module load, by changing:

bool module_load(const char *prefix, const char *lib_name);
void module_load_qom(const char *type);

to:

int module_load(const char *prefix, const char *name, Error **errp);
int module_load_qom(const char *type, Error **errp);

where the return value is:

 -1 on module load error, and errp is set with the error
  0 on module or one of its dependencies are not installed
  1 on module load success
  2 on module load success (module already loaded or built-in)

module_load_qom_one has been introduced in:

commit 28457744 ("module: qom module support"), which built on top of
module_load_one, but discarded the bool return value. Restore it.

Adapt all callers to emit errors, or ignore them, or fail hard,
as appropriate in each context.

Replace the previous emission of errors via fprintf in _some_ error
conditions with Error and error_report, so as to emit to the appropriate
target.

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