[libvirt] [PATCH v2] vepa: parsing for 802.1Qb{g|h} XML

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:47:17AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Gerhard Stenzel (gstenzel at linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 12:13 -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > > I'd suggest to use this patch as a base for triggering the setup
> > > protocol with the 802.1Qb{g|h} switch.
> > 
> > Here is a RFC patch, which demonstrates how libvirt could communicate
> > with lldpad via the lldptool for the 802.1Qbg case. Please note, that
> > there is currently no public available version of lldptool which accepts
> > this command line. This is also work in progress. 
> 
> Can this be made a library instead of an exec() based cmdline interface?

  Hum, actually from a libvirt deployment POV, depending on an unstable
library is way worse than depending on a command line interface. I.e.
the library would make sense only if we had some serious garantee of
stabilities, API/ABI garantees, etc ... In the absence of someone firmly
commiting to this, a CLI is less dangerous. So at least in a first
step an exec() based interface sounds the right approach to me.

Daniel

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