Generate more useful error messages for unconnected ports.

Force all non-default ports to provide a name and an
owner in the constructor.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/src/mem/cache/cache.hh b/src/mem/cache/cache.hh
index 88c9deb7b..56ae811a3 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/cache.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/cache.hh
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ class Cache : public BaseCache
     Cache(const Params *p, TagStore *tags, BasePrefetcher *prefetcher);
 
     virtual Port *getPort(const std::string &if_name, int idx = -1);
-    virtual void deletePortRefs(Port *p);
+    virtual bool deletePort(Port *p);
 
     void regStats();
 
diff --git a/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh b/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh
index 3b56c0a2e..a3dae7b2a 100644
--- a/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh
+++ b/src/mem/cache/cache_impl.hh
@@ -105,13 +105,14 @@ Cache<TagStore>::getPort(const std::string &if_name, int idx)
 }
 
 template<class TagStore>
-void
-Cache<TagStore>::deletePortRefs(Port *p)
+bool
+Cache<TagStore>::deletePort(Port *p)
 {
     if (cpuSidePort == p || memSidePort == p)
         panic("Can only delete functional ports\n");
 
     delete p;
+    return true;
 }