[libvirt] [PATCH] domain: Remove controller/net address whitelists

[Cole Robinson]

On 03/18/2016 03:05 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 03/08/2016 11:39 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Judging by how the whitelist has skewed quite far from the original
>> error message, I think it's better to just drop these.
>>
>> If someone wants to revive this check I suggest implementing it on
>> a per-HV driver basis with PostParse callbacks.
> 
> Definitely the error messages for the current checks are incorrect, and
> certain types that are allowed here would actually be invalid for some
> hypervisors/machinetypes (the example you gave me in IRC was that vmware
> doesn't have virtio-mmio, nor do most qemu machinetypes), so you are correct
> that the proper place for at least some of the validation is in a post-parse
> callback.
> 
> There is some value in the current validation, but it's dubious since any
> failure would have led to a misleading error message. Based on that I say ACK
> to this, but someone should put "improve address type validation in postparse"
> on their todo list :-)

Thanks, pushed. I'll add it to http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/BiteSizedTasks

- Cole