[libvirt] [PATCH v2 0/4] attach-interface: Learn net type='direct'

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 07:55:48AM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 02/12/2015 04:50 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> >
> > On 02/09/2015 10:20 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> >> v2
> >>
> >> Michal Privoznik (4):
> >>   libvirt_private.syms: Expose virDomainNetTypeFromString
> >>   virsh attach-interface: Use enum instead of arbitrary integers
> >>   virsh attach-interface: Use virDomainNetType{From,To}String()
> >>   virsh attach-interface: Allow macvtap hotplug
> >>
> >>  src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
> >>  tools/virsh-domain.c     | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> >>  tools/virsh.pod          | 14 ++++++++------
> >>  3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> >>
> > ACK series...
> 
> 
> I had thought that during V1 of this patch series there had been enough
> sentiment about not pulling in private parts of libvirt internals that
> this V2 (posted 2 minutes before the last comment in V1, so very
> literally crossing in the inter-tubes) would be discarded in favor of
> something that only used public APIs - the last word on the subject was
> this:
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-February/msg00284.html
> 
> (Yes, I know there are other places where it's already done, but it
> seems like a better idea to clean those up than to compound the pollution.)

Yeah, I'd prefer that in general, but this particular patch is only using
the trivial VIR_ENUM string/int conversion, so I'm willing to overlook it
for this. If the internal API being used were non-trivial then I'd say
we should look at the public API support.

Regards,
Daniel
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