[libvirt] [PATCH] Improve invalid argument checks for the public API

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue May 17 18:56:19 UTC 2011


On 05/17/2011 12:12 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 
> The actual semantic for (n)params is not completely defined, is it?
> This just matches what (most of?) the driver currently do.
> 
>> Hmm, here we document that nparams can be <= the value returned by
>> virDomainGetSchedulerType; which means it can be 0, which means that
>> params can be NULL.  I think we should change this to allow NULL,0 in
>> input as a way of querying the proper nparams size on output.
> 
> Why would you add a second way to query nparams?

I guess the alternative is to tighten up the documentation to
specifically state that nparams must be the number of parameters (and
not a subset) managed by the device for Get; Set can still do subsets
though.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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