[libvirt] PATCH: 4/7: Convert LXC to new domain APIs

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 04:39:05PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > The re-architecting of the LXC controller/container process relationship
> > in the previous patch removed the last obstacle to switching over to the
> > generic domain XML routines. So this patch switches the driver over.
> >
> > First the vast majority of lxc_conf.h/c is simply deleted - this is all
> > redundant when using the domain_conf.h APIs. Then, all references to lxc_vm_t
> > are changed to virDomainObj, and lxc_vm_def_t switches to virDomainDef.
> > Finally the LXC driver registers its capabilities data. For this I have
> > chosen an OS type of 'exe', since the 'operating system' we're running
> > in the container is just any plain executable process.
> >
> >
> >  lxc_conf.c       | 1052 +------------------------------------------------------
> >  lxc_conf.h       |  121 ------
> >  lxc_container.c  |   23 -
> >  lxc_container.h  |    2
> >  lxc_controller.c |    4
> >  lxc_controller.h |    2
> >  lxc_driver.c     |  289 ++++++++-------
> >  7 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 1278 deletions(-)
> 
> All looks fine.
> ACK.
> 
> However, please note that it would have been a lot easier/quicker
> to review if you'd done the mechanical/automatable changes
> (i.e., the global substitutions like s/lxc_vm_t/virDomainObj/)
> separately from the others.

If i'd separated out the substitution, then the intermediate state between
the two patches would not be functional. I prefer to have the changes 
fully operational at each step so you can bisect change history.

Daniel
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