On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 15:51 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/20/2014 03:47 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 12:36 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 11/14/2014 11:12 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2014-11-13 at 19:04 +0000, George Dunlap wrote:
> >>>> Return proper error codes on failure so that scripts can tell
> >>>> whether the command completed properly or not.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Also while we're at it, normalize init and dispose of 
> >>>> libxl_device_disk structures.  This means calling init and
> >>>> dispose in the actual functions where they are declared.
> >>>> 
> >>>> This in turn means changing parse_disk_config_multistring()
> >>>> to not call libxl_device_disk_init.  And that in turn means
> >>>> changes to callers of parse_disk_config().
> >>>> 
> >>>> It also means removing libxl_device_disk_init() from 
> >>>> libxl.c:libxl_vdev_to_device_disk().  This is only called
> >>>> from xl_cmdimpl.c.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <[email protected]> 
> >>>> --- CC: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> CC: Ian
> >>>> Jackson <[email protected]> CC: Wei Liu
> >>>> <[email protected]> CC: Konrad Wilk
> >>>> <[email protected]>
> >>>> 
> >>>> Release justification: This is a bug fix.  It's a fairly
> >>>> minor one, but it's also a very simple one.
> >>>> 
> >>>> v2: - Restructure functions to make sure init and dispose are
> >>>> properly called.
> >>> Sadly this bit has somewhat reduced the truth of the second
> >>> half of your release justification, since the patch is a fair
> >>> bit more subtle though. Although IMHO it hasn't invalidated the
> >>> case for taking the patch for 4.5 (modulo comments below).
> >> 
> >> Well, I think we can take the hacky short-term fix I posted
> >> before, which is simple, and do a proper fix after the 4.6 dev
> >> window opens up; or we can do a more complete fix now.
> > 
> > Specifically the "hacky short-term fix" is 
> > <[email protected]> ?
> 
> Yes -- the one you found somewhat wanting. :-)
> 
> > I could live with that, perhaps with the commit log explaining that
> > a little.
> 
> Do you want to add that, or shall I add it and re-submit?

If you provide the text I'll just fold it in, unless having written it
you find invoking send-email to be so trivial it's actually easier.

Ian.


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