On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:21:20PM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 21:10:57 +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > > On 2012年07月20日 21:01, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:00:21PM +0800, Osier Yang wrote: > > >> On 2012年07月20日 20:44, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > >>> Fortunately no other part of this patch series appears to rely on this > > >>> extra field. Just remove this addition& the place in storage_driver.c > > >>> which sets it. The rest of this patch series can still be reviewed > > >>> as is > > >> > > >> The 'type' is used to filter the returned pool objects, so patches > > >> 1/50 to 14/50 should be skipped, though there is several patches > > >> in the range not related with storage pool specificly. > > > > > > Filtering is done inside the storage driver, so I don't see why > > > this needs to be exposed in the public API. > > > > Patch 12/50 will explain it: if the server side is old enough without > > the new API listAllStoragePools, and virsh is new enough to have the > > new introduced option "--type". I.e. new virsh talks to old libvirt, > > It will need to get the pool type to filter the results in virsh layer. > > I guess I'm missing something important here... If libvirtd is old enough not > to support listAllStoragePools, how it can be new enough to support the new > API which would return pool type? Yeah, this just doesn't make any sense. All filtering should be done in the libvirtd server side for new enough libvirt. Nothing should be done client side, for old or new libvirtd. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list