[Libvir] [PATCH] Fields in virDomainPtr which appear to be never used

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:25:00AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Below is the definition of struct _virDomain from internal.h.  I may be 
> missing something big (well, it wouldn't be the first time), but as far 
> as I can see some of these fields are never used, and some are set but 
> can never be read.
> 
> struct _virDomain {
>     unsigned int magic;  /* specific value to check */
> OK
> 
>     int uses;            /* reference count */
> OK
> 
>     virConnectPtr conn;  /* pointer back to the connection */
> OK
> 
>     char *name;          /* the domain external name */
> OK
> 
>     char *path;          /* the domain internal path */
> This field is set in src/xs_internal.c, but nowhere in libvirt does it 
> appear to be read.  The only other time it is reference is in hash.c 
> where it is freed if non-NULL.
> 
>     int id;              /* the domain ID */
> OK
> 
>     int flags;           /* extra flags */
> Apparently this field could be set to DOMAIN_IS_SHUTDOWN or 
> DOMAIN_IS_DEFINED.  However neither of these symbols are used, and 
> moreover this structure field looks like it is never written or read.
> 
>     unsigned char uuid[VIR_UUID_BUFLEN]; /* the domain unique identifier */
> OK
> 
>     char *xml;           /* the XML description for defined domains */
> This field is, as far as I can tell, never set anywhere.  However the 
> code in hash.c does check whether it is set and will free it upon 
> destruction of the _virDomain object.
> 
> };
> 
> With this analysis in mind, attached is a patch which removes these 
> three fields (path, flags, xml) and the unused virDomainFlags, with no 
> apparent ill-effects.

ACK, I'm all for removing code which isn't used. If we really need it
in the future its all there in CVS history / trivially re-introducable.

Regards,
Dan.
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