On 07/18/2011 02:53 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
On 07/15/2011 07:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
There were two API in driver.c that were silently masking flags bits prior to calling out to the drivers, and several others that were explicitly masking flags bits. This is not forward-compatible - if we ever have that many flags in the future, then talking to an old server that masks out the flags would be indistinguishable from talking to a new server that can honor the flag. In general, libvirt.c should forward _all_ flags on to drivers, and only the drivers should reject unknown flags.
+++ b/src/interface/netcf_driver.c @@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ static char *interfaceGetXMLDesc(virInterfacePtr ifinfo, virInterfaceDefPtr ifacedef = NULL; char *ret = NULL;
+ virCheckFlags(VIR_INTERFACE_XML_INACTIVE, NULL); +
If I understand correctly, this is here to put the burden on the driver to check/reject flags, rather than letting the client do it.
Correct. Older drivers didn't reject unknown flags, so there is a situation where a newer client talking to a pre-0.9.4 server will misbehave, but the only way to fix that would be to teach 0.9.4 client codes to reject any flags that did not exist prior to 0.9.4 before making the RPC. But from 0.9.4 onwards, all drivers will all reject unknown flags, so the RPC can blindly pass all flags through to let the remote driver decide whether or not a flag is known, instead of rejecting the flag prematurely.
- ret = conn->secretDriver->getValue(secret, value_size, flags); + ret = conn->secretDriver->getValue(secret, value_size, flags, 0);
So the getValue() callback has an extra internalFlags arg, but that is only non-0 if get Value is called from the driver side (e.g. from qemu), and never sent over the wire. A bit odd, but I can live with it (or you can add the v5 interdiff - either way is fine with me).
I ended up pushing v4 as is, and saving the separation of driver functions for a separate patch, which I'm still not convinced whether to keep or drop.
ACK, either with or without the v5 interdiff added. Having a separate callback seems cleaner, but may have other implications I'm not aware of.
Now pushed. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org