[libvirt] [PATCH] [3/4] Implement managed save operations for qemu driver

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Apr 2 21:20:59 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 04:48:36PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 04:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 04/02/2010 01:56 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >
> >>+static int
> >>+qemuDomainManagedSave(virDomainPtr dom,
> >>+                      unsigned int flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
> >No - for future compability, we NEED to check that flags==0 or fail now.
> >  Otherwise, a future version, where flags has meaning, will mistakenly
> >think that our older version can honor those flags.
> 
> That makes sense, but there's a lot of precedence to the contrary
> already in the code:
> 
> find . -name \*.c | xargs grep "flags ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED" | wc
>        155     832   14106
> 
> (some of these are probably false positives, but still...)
> 
> Sounds like you're volunteering for a global cleanup ;-)

  The problem is that the cleanup could break existing behaviour,
so I would be quite cautious about it and really look on a case by
case basis. But for new interfaces, yes we should do this,

Daniel

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