[PATCH v2 3/3] virsh-domain: Drop support for old APIs in cmdSetmem and cmdSetmaxmem

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Wed May 19 13:03:06 UTC 2021


On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:16:57 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> Some of our really old APIs are missing @flags argument. We
> introduced their variants with "Flags" suffix and wired some
> logic into virsh to call the new variant only if necessary. This
> enables virsh to talk to older daemon which may be lacking new
> APIs.
> 
> However, in case of cmdSetmem() we are talking about v0.1.1
> (virDomainSetMemory()) vs. v0.9.0 (virDomainSetMemoryFlags()) and
> in case of cmdSetmaxmem() we are talking about v0.0.3
> (virDomainSetMaxMemory()) vs v0.9.0 (virDomainSetMemoryFlags()).
> 
> Libvirt v0.9.0 was released more than 10 years ago and recently
> we dropped support for RHEL-7 which has v4.5.0 (released ~3 years
> ago). Thus it is not really necessary to have support in virsh
> for such old daemons.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  tools/virsh-domain.c | 28 ++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com>

While I agree with the premise, please hold off pushing this patch to
let others chime in.




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