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Re: [Xen-devel] libxl_cdrom_insert

To: Kamala Narasimhan <kamala.narasimhan@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] libxl_cdrom_insert
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:03:48 +0000
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On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 22:37 +0000, Kamala Narasimhan wrote: 
> Do we know the rationale behind setting disk->physpath to "" in the
> below code in libxl?  Hopefully there is more to it than to avoid a
> potential null pointer crash at a later point :)

I think it might indicate an empty CDROM drive in the HVM case. Arguably
a PHYSTYPE_EMPTY/NONE or some such concept might have been clearer. "hg
annotate" should lead you to the original commit.

Ian.



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