Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virDomainDetachDeviceFlags: Clarify update semantics

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1621910 When users want to update a path to a CDROM they tend to construct a very minimal XML and feed the API with it. This is not a good practice as it breaks the assumptions the API is built on. Most notably, leaving an element out should be treated as a request for removal of the corresponding setting. Just like leaving out <bandwidth/> clears out any QoS previously set. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/libvirt-domain.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/libvirt-domain.c b/src/libvirt-domain.c index ef460277f7..bd8ca6eff2 100644 --- a/src/libvirt-domain.c +++ b/src/libvirt-domain.c @@ -8318,6 +8318,14 @@ virDomainDetachDeviceFlags(virDomainPtr domain, * media, altering the graphics configuration such as password, * reconfiguring the NIC device backend connectivity, etc. * + * The supplied XML description of the device should contain all + * the information that are found in corresponding domain XML.

+ * Leaving out any piece of information is treated as request for

+ * its removal, which may be denied. For instance, when users + * want to change CDROM media only for live XML, they must + * provide live disk XML as found in corresponding live domain

+ * XML with only the disk path changed.