[libvirt] PATCH [0/2]: Deprecate conn, dom, net virterror fields

[Atsushi SAKAI]

Hi, Rich

Your code seems to make compilation trouble.
http://builder.virt-manager.org/module-libvirt--devel.html


http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc949fa7b7e043401f4c53374fa1939c348a911f;hp=a295031a35110112ecc92aca1e21428435ec8e86

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI


"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> This is a pair of patches which deprecate the conn, dom and net fields
> in the virterror structure.
> 
> Programs which use these fields will get a warning (if compiled under
> gcc anyway):
> 
>   foo.c:123: warning: 'dom' is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libvirt/virterror.h:81)
> 
> The fields themselves are still present and still set, so the ABI
> isn't changed.
> 
> Now the patch is quite a lot more involved than you might think for
> such a simple change.  Part of the problem is that we want to allow
> libvirt itself to modify these fields without generating a warning.
> 
> Therefore the first part of the patch has to refactor all code within
> libvirt which includes "libvirt.h" or "virterror.h" (the public
> headers) so that instead this code just includes "internal.h".
> "internal.h" already includes the public headers.  This allows
> "internal.h" to undefine the deprecation macro.
> 
> Of course nothing is quite so simple.  We have two "internal.h" files,
> so I renamed the one in the qemud directory to "qemud.h".
> 
> I also added something in the HACKING file, stating how *.c files
> within libvirt should include header files.
> 
> The second part of the patch actually adds the deprecation to the
> fields in virterror, and hence is small and simple.
> 
> Rich.
> 
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