Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 11 of 23] libxl: make libxl_device_console internal

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:20 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH 11 of 23] libxl: make 
> libxl_device_console internal"):
> > libxl: make libxl_device_console internal
> > 
> > consoles are not directly exposed to users of the library and there are no 
> > API
> > functions for manipluating them (only the console_exec function). Rather 
> > than
> > commit to a particular API now make the type internal.
> 
> Isn't it likely that at some future point we will re-expose this
> difference, for example by providing a different set of access
> functions ?

Very likely. However I didn't want to design or commit to an API in the
total absence of users.

When a user does come along it is much easier to add a completely new
API rather than to fix an existing broken one. It's easier to do this in
a manner which users of the library can cope with in a compatible way
e.g. adding a new API is easier to check for with ./configure.

> The fact that all you can do with a console is exec the xenconsole
> client is pretty crazy.

Yup.

Ian.


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