From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: libxl_device handling for nic and vtmp
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:02:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160218170235.GB24938@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160218165438.GA1394@aepfle.de>
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:54:38PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, Wei Liu wrote:
>
> > For example, user might not have specified mac address so the library
> > generates one for (s)he. You don't want mac address to regenerate after
> > save / restore or migration. But you don't want to preserve all
> > autogenerated state, so you use the original copy as template and fill
> > it up as you see fit.
>
> How does that fit into DEFINE_DEVICE_ADD? The functions do 1:1 copies,
> calling libxl__update_config_* looks unnecessary.
>
Sorry I don't follow. What do you mean by 1:1 copy? Why does it make the
update unnecessary?
As said, we want some of the states but not all.
Wei.
> Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 15:13 libxl_device handling for nic and vtmp Olaf Hering
2016-02-18 15:52 ` Wei Liu
2016-02-18 16:54 ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-18 17:02 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-02-18 17:19 ` Olaf Hering
2016-02-18 17:25 ` Wei Liu
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