[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: Parse guestfwd channel device info again

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 11:01 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 18:52 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> [...]
> > -    if (def->deviceType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_DEVICE_TYPE_CHANNEL &&
> > -        def->targetType == VIR_DOMAIN_CHR_CHANNEL_TARGET_TYPE_GUESTFWD) {
> > -        VIR_DEBUG("Ignoring device address for gustfwd channel");
> > -    } else if (virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML(xmlopt, node,
> > -                                           &def->info, flags) < 0) {
> > +    if (virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML(xmlopt, node, &def->info, flags) < 0)
> >          goto error;
> > -    }
> > -
> 
> I agree that fixing Bug 1610072 is more important than preventing
> Bug 1172526 from showing up again, but it would be great if we could
> make it so both are fixed...
> 
> How about parsing the info and then clearing out the address only if
> it's a guestfwd channel? The existing virDomainDeviceInfoClear() is
> a bit too thorough, but perhaps you can introduce a new
> virDomainDeviceInfoClearAddress() that only zeroes out the address
> and use that here.

Given the issues with the approach I proposed, let's just cut our
losses and merge your original attempt instead. Sorry for wasting
your time :(

Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization