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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Python libxl binding updates

On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 16:25 +0000, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 13:53 +0000, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> > Various, mostly minor, updates to the libxl python binding which address 
> > both
> > correctness and usability issues.
> 
> I have a new version of this patch-set which currently contains 10
> patches and brings the bindings up to a state where we can create
> domains and all that is left is basic plumbing through of libxl
> functions/methods.
> 
> Do you think it would be possible to get a freeze exception so that I
> can re-submit this next week? It provides new features but only to the
> xl python bindings which are unused and unusable in their current state
> anyway.
> 
> There are bugfixes:
>  1. pyxl-fix-refcounting
>  2. pyxl-unmuddle-pause-unpause
> 
> Some IDL and code-generation work which touches things in the
> tools/libxl tree but doesn't change any C code (not even the
> auto-generated headers and destructors). I have decided not to abolish
> keyed unions after all.
>  1. pyxl-marshall-substructures-and-unions
>  2. xl-idl-arrays
>  3. xl-idl-enums
>  4. pyxl-builtin-type-marshallers

Actually, sorry, that's slightly incorrect. In the final patch
'pyxl-domain-create' the libxl_domain_config struct comes out of libxl.h
and in to the IDL but the net is an identical C program.

That's why arrays and enums are implemented in the IDL.

Gianni


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