Greetings Sir My apologies for the incorrect formats as I am a beginner to git. Thank you very much for your corrections. I have a few questions: Can Questions and doubts be posted within the same mail that consists a patch file? Or should they be put in a separate email (as I am attempting to do now)? As per your instruction to make the functions static, I was able to make the below function (created by me) static by calling it from virDomainGraphicsDefListensValidate() within domain_validate.c static int virDomainGraphicsListenDefValidate(const virDomainGraphicsListenDef *def, const virDomainGraphicsDef *graphics) Similarly, In this patch: Link <https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2023-April/239205.html> I had created a function named; int virDomainStorageNetHostSocketValidate(const virStorageNetHostDef *host, const char *transport); that removes the validation checks of socket in virDomainStorageNetworkParseHost(). While I found a function to call Graphics Validation within validate.c, I am unable to find a function that can be used to call NetworkHostSocketValidate() from within domain_validate.c. Could you please provide a pointer on how it could be done? Thank you in advance. Shiva