[libvirt] [PATCH 00/22] Extend remote generator to generate function bodies too

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:18:18AM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2011/4/27 Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat.com>:
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 11:13:47AM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> >> Richard W.M. Jones suggested [1] that the code that directly deals with the
> >> XDR protocol should be generated. The remote_generate_stubs.pl script
> >> already generates all the headers, just the bodies in the daemon and remote
> >> driver are manually written. But most of the functions just follow simple
> >> patterns. So I extended the generator to exploit this patterns and move
> >> 11 kLOC code from manually written to generated code.
> >>
> >> During this I came a cross many small variations and problems in the XDR
> >> protocol. For example, NWFilterDefineXML has a flags parameter in the public
> >> API, but it's not transferred in the XDR protocol. Another things is the
> >> variations in the usage of unsigned VS signed types. This comes in two forms.
> >> public API VS XDR procotol and in between different functions. For example,
> >> some functions use int for the flags paramater and some use unsigned int.
> >>
> >> This results in quite a lot of special case handling in the generator.
> >
> >  Matthias,
> >
> > this sounds the right thing to do, actually cocumenting the
> > irregularities in teh generator is an important step to make sure
> > we keep the ABI over time. However I think it's better to postpone
> > applying the patch since after the upcoming release and when
> > Dan is back, I would really prefer him to have a look at it :-)
> >
> >  okay ?
> >
> > Daniel
> 
> Sure, this change is way to big to go into the next release, as we're
> supposed to be in feature freeze for 0.9.1 already, aren't we?

  Well I didn't explicitely announced t and mad no candidate release,
so let's say we aren't yet, but very soon

> Although everything still compiles fine and the TCK did turn up any
> major breakage this needs to be properly reviewed to make sure I
> didn't overlook anything in the conversion process.

  Agreed

> I should probably also add a 23/22 patch that adds more comments to
> the generator about the irregularities that are currently expressed by
> the special case code only.

  +1 :-)

> So, as you said this series has to be postponed for 0.9.2.

  Okay, thanks !

Daniel

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