[libvirt] [PATCH v3 01/12] nodedev: Alter virNodeDeviceObjRemove

[Erik Skultety]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 01:24:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 02:12:55PM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 09:11:51AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> > > Rather than passing the object to be removed by reference, pass by value
> > > and then let the caller decide whether or not the object should be free'd.
> > > This function should just handle the remove of the object from the list
> > > for which it was placed during virNodeDeviceObjAssignDef.
> > >
> > > One caller in node_device_hal would fail to go through the dev_create path
> > > since the @dev would have been NULL after returning from the Remove API.
> >
> > This is the main motivation for the patch I presume - in which case, I'm
> > wondering why do we actually have to remove the device from the list when
> > handling 'change'/'update' for hal instead of just replacing the ->def with a
> > new instance but it's perfectly fine to do that for udev...I don't see the
> > point in doing what we currently do for hal.
>
> It will basically be a historical artifact since few people have touched the
> HAL driver in years. We only keep it around for compat with FreeBSD IIRC.
> It is perfectly reasonable to update the code to follow our modern best
> practice.

Thank you for explanation.

Erik