[libvirt] [PATCH v2] network: remove stale function

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2019-01-09 at 21:47 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
> networkMigrateStateFiles was added nearly 5 years ago when the network
> state directory was moved from /var/lib/libvirt to /var/run/libvirt
> just prior to libvirt-1.2.4). It was only required to maintain proper
> state information for networks that were active during an upgrade that
> didn't involve rebooting the host. At this point the likelyhood of
> anyone upgrading their libvirt from pre-1.2.4 directly to 5.0.0 or
> later *without rebooting the host* is probably so close to 0 that no
> properly informed bookie would take *any* odds on it happening, so it
> seems appropriate to remove this pointless code.

The rationale makes sense to me.

[...]
> @@ -691,12 +604,6 @@ networkStateInitialize(bool privileged,
>                         LOCALSTATEDIR "/lib/libvirt/radvd") < 0)
>              goto error;
>  

Please remove this empty line as well.

> -        /* migration from old to new location is only applicable for
> -         * privileged mode - unprivileged mode directories haven't
> -         * changed location.
> -         */
> -        if (networkMigrateStateFiles(network_driver) < 0)
> -            goto error;

With the above addressed,

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

Maybe wait until 5.0.0 is released before pushing, in order to give
other people a chance to voice any concerns they might have.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization