[libvirt] [PATCH libvirt-glib 02/15] Add objects for dealing with <console> devices

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:02:17PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> The code by itself is fine, but I'm not sure about the design
> If we go this way, we'll have GVirConfigDomainConsolePty,
> GVirConfigDomainConsoleStdio, GVirConfigDomainConsoleFile,
> and then GVirConfigDomainSerialPty, GVirConfigDomainSerialStdio,
> GVirConfigDomainSerialFile, and the same for channels and parallel ports.
> 
> Something that might work is having GVirConfigDomainChardev as a base class
> for GVirConfigDomainConsole, GVirConfigDomainSerial, ...
> Then we'd also have a GVirConfigDomainChardevSource from which
> GVirConfigDomainChardevSourcePty, GVirConfigDomainChardevSourceStdio,
> GVirConfigDomainChardevSourceFile, ... would derive.
> And finally we'd have some kind of gvir_config_domain_chardev_add_source
> API to combine the 2 (GVirConfigDomainConsole +
> GVirConfigDomainChardevSourcePty).
> There's the added complication that sometimes you have multiple source XML
> nodes, sometimes  you have a protocol node, so maybe
> GVirConfigDomainChardevSourcePty would not even derive from
> GVirConfigObject to allow  handling that, or it would have a fake <chardev>
> toplevel node.

Yes, all good points. I didn't think this through properly. I think
we should have a GVirConfigDomainChardev and {Console,Serial,Parallel}
subclasses. Then have a GVirConfigDomainChardevSource and {Pty,
File, Tcp, etc} subclasses.

I'll withdraw this patch from the series until one of us can do a
proper job.

Daniel
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