[libvirt] [PATCH 1/7] storage: Remove unused attribute conn from 'checkPool' callback

[Erik Skultety]

On 03/26/2015 02:51 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:19:18 -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 03/24/2015 06:06 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
>>> The checkPool callback should be used when updating states of all pools
>>> during storageStateInitialize, not storageDriverAutostart, otherwise we
>>> can't start a domain which mounts a volume after daemons restarted. This
>>> is because qemuProcessReconnect is called earlier than
>>> storageDriverAutostart which marks the pool as active, so that the
>>> domain can mount a volume from this pool successfully.
>>> In order to fix this, conn attribute has to be discarded from the
>>> callback, because storageStateInitialize doesn't have a connection yet.
>>> (it's not used anyway)
>>>
>>> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177733
> 
> This patch definitely does not resolve this^^.

>> I'm not convinced we can remove 'conn'. Something about backend or
>> backward compatibility. Since it's not used by any backend anyway,
>> there's (more or less) no harm in keeping it.
> 
> The storage driver backend APIs are internal so it's okay to change
> Additionally I recall that it will simplify some of the further patches.
> 
> ACK
> 
> Peter

Thanks, I removed the BZ link and reworded the message a bit and pushed,
v2 of the remaining patches coming in a second.

Erik