Re: [PATCH for-4.5 0/2] xl/libxl: return and print partial config

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:04:23PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> This small series change the behavior of libxl_retrieve_domain_configuration,
> to make it continue to retrieve information from xenstore even if JSON template
> is not available.
> 
> This change of API behaviour is only internal. Conceptually speaking, any
> non-zero return value means d_config is partially filled. The chanage just
> makes it fill in more information (xenstore entries) than before (empty).
> Caller can still expect zero on success and non-zero on error and act
> accordingly.

What are the work-arounds (if any) if this does not go in Xen 4.5?

> 
> "xl list -l" is now changed to print out the partial configuration, since it
> needs to be consistent with the short output.
> 
> Wei.
> 
> Wei Liu (2):
>   libxl: continue when encounter ERROR_JSON_CONFIG_EMPTY
>   xl: print out partial configuration in long mode of list command
> 
>  tools/libxl/libxl.c      |    6 +++++-
>  tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c |    6 ++----
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
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> 1.7.10.4
>