On 15.07.2011 16:29, Eric Blake wrote:
On 07/15/2011 07:58 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Right now it is possible to undefine an active interface, or
destroy inactive. This patch add some checking to these operations
to prevent this. Also fix test driver.
I'm inclined to NACK this on design principles (I haven't read the patch
itself, though). Given the discussion about domains and undefine, the
ability to undefine an active interface is a feature, provided we
support the concept of a transient interface like we do for transient
domains.
That is, we have the following transitions:
nothing -> transient/running via Create
nothing -> persistent/inactive via Define
persistent/inactive -> persistent/active via Start
persistent/inactive -> gone via Undefine
persistent/running -> persistent/inactive via Destroy
persistent/running -> transient/running via Undefine
transient/running -> gone via Destroy
transient/running -> persistent/running via Define
and rejecting Undefine on a running interface would prevent the ability
to transistion a persistent over to a transient interface.
On the other hand, if we don't support transient interfaces, then the
above analysis which works for domains would have to be adjusted for
interfaces, so you may have something to patch after all.
Well, although we have function interfaceCreate, it is actually (from
semantic POV) interfaceStart, because it just start inactive but defined
interface. So we do not support transient interfaces. Therefore
transitions for interfaces are slightly different from transitions for
domains. That's why I think we do need this patch.
Michal
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