Re: [Xen-devel] libxl_device handling for nic and vtmp

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:54:38PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, Wei Liu wrote:
> 
> > For example, user might not have specified mac address so the library
> > generates one for (s)he. You don't want mac address to regenerate after
> > save / restore or migration.  But you don't want to preserve all
> > autogenerated state, so you use the original copy as template and fill
> > it up as you see fit.
> 
> How does that fit into DEFINE_DEVICE_ADD? The functions do 1:1 copies,
> calling libxl__update_config_* looks unnecessary.
> 

Sorry I don't follow. What do you mean by 1:1 copy? Why does it make the
update unnecessary?

As said, we want some of the states but not all.

Wei.

> Olaf

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