[libvirt] [PATCH/RFC]: hostdev passthrough support take #2

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:34:31AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 01:41:28AM +0200, Guido G?nther wrote:
> > Hi,
> > attached is a second version. Changes are:
> > 
> > * s/bus/subsystem/
> > * support hexadecimal and decimal attributes
> > * introduce device and source elements. 
> > 
> > I decided to not drop vendor and product id into their own elements
> > since the structure would then become very nested for no good reason.
> 
> The reason is that I want it to match the host device enumeration
> XML format. This will be using explicit <product> and <vendor>
> tags, with an 'id' attribute, because there will be text content
> in the body giving the human readable name.
Ahh...o.k.

> 
> > Some examples:
> > 
> >     <hostdev mode="subsys" type='usb'>
> >       <source>
> >         <device vendor="0x0204" product="0x6025"/>
> 
> So this needs to be changed to
> 
>           <vendor id="0x0204"/>
>           <product id="0x6025"/>
Sure.

> Ok, that's not critical, but the other things we need before we
> can commit this are
> 
>  - Code to format XML for output, so that the devices are included when
>     dumping the XML description of a guest.
>  - Update to the RNG schema in docs/libvirt.rng
>  - Example XML data files in tests/qemuxml2argvdata/, along with the
>    corresponding  CLI args for QEMU. THis is then hooked into the 
>    qemuxml2argvtest.c and qemuxml2xmltest.c files
Sure. I delayed those since they'd have to be adjusted when the XML
changes, I'll add them now and do the other minor touchups you
suggested...might be a couple of days though.
 -- Guido