Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 06:30:34PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I noticed a typo in a public interface.
>> IMHO it's well worth fixing, so propose this:
>> (imagine someone searching for all occurrences of "tunneled"
>> with the proper spelling. They would miss this symbol.)
>
> I don't think we should make this kind of change. It has
> no functional gain for app developers, but adds the downside
> that anyone using this new symbol has needlessly made their
> code incompatible with libvirt 0.7.5, 0.8.0, 0.8.1, etc, etc
There are plenty of new features that people will be using
that will render their code incompatible with previous releases.
However, if you insist, let's at least mark it as a known error
so that searches for the properly spelled symbol will turn up
the misspelled one:
>From 8ae4cc7d25efaab531f5045940c13ec3bb36497f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 19:13:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] note a typo: VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED should be VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELED,
so that searches for properly spelled "TUNNELED" will turn up
the misspelled symbol name.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in: Add a comment.
---
include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
index 838028d..5cb23b3 100644
--- a/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
+++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* Description: Provides the interfaces of the libvirt library to handle
* virtualized domains
*
- * Copy: Copyright (C) 2005,2006 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copy: Copyright (C) 2005,2006,2010 Red Hat, Inc.
*
* See COPYING.LIB for the License of this software
*
@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ typedef enum {
typedef enum {
VIR_MIGRATE_LIVE = (1 << 0), /* live migration */
VIR_MIGRATE_PEER2PEER = (1 << 1), /* direct source -> dest host control channel */
+ /* note the spelling error that we're stuck with:
+ VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED should be VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELED */
VIR_MIGRATE_TUNNELLED = (1 << 2), /* tunnel migration data over libvirtd connection */
VIR_MIGRATE_PERSIST_DEST = (1 << 3), /* persist the VM on the destination */
VIR_MIGRATE_UNDEFINE_SOURCE = (1 << 4), /* undefine the VM on the source */
--
1.7.1.250.g7d1e8
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