In many files there are header comments that contain an Author:
statement, supposedly reflecting who originally wrote the code.
In a large collaborative project like libvirt, any non-trivial
file will have been modified by a large number of different
contributors. IOW, the Author: comments are quickly out of date,
omitting people who have made significant contribitions.
In some places Author: lines have been added despite the person
merely being responsible for creating the file by moving existing
code out of another file. IOW, the Author: lines give an incorrect
record of authorship.
With this all in mind, the comments are useless as a means to identify
who to talk to about code in a particular file. Contributors will always
be better off using 'git log' and 'git blame' if they need to find the
author of a particular bit of code.
This commit thus deletes all Author: comments from the source and adds
a rule to prevent them reappearing.
The Copyright headers are similarly misleading and inaccurate, however,
we cannot delete these as they have legal meaning, despite being largely
inaccurate. In addition only the copyright holder is permitted to change
their respective copyright statement.
Reviewed-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
This type of information defines attributes of a system
chassis, such as SMBIOS Chassis Asset Tag.
access inside VM (for example)
Linux: /sys/class/dmi/id/chassis_asset_tag.
Windows: (Get-WmiObject Win32_SystemEnclosure).SMBIOSAssetTag
wirhin Windows PowerShell.
As an example, add the following to the guest XML
<chassis>
<entry name='manufacturer'>Dell Inc.</entry>
<entry name='version'>2.12</entry>
<entry name='serial'>65X0XF2</entry>
<entry name='asset'>40000101</entry>
<entry name='sku'>Type3Sku1</entry>
</chassis>
Signed-off-by: Zhuang Yanying <ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
The OEM strings table in SMBIOS allows the vendor to pass arbitrary
strings into the guest OS. This can be used as a way to pass data to an
application like cloud-init, or potentially as an alternative to the
kernel command line for OS installers where you can't modify the install
ISO image to change the kernel args.
As an example, consider if cloud-init and anaconda supported OEM strings
you could use something like
<oemStrings>
<entry>cloud-init:ds=nocloud-net;s=http://10.10.0.1:8000/</entry>
<entry>anaconda:method=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/25/x86_64/os</entry>
</oemStrings>
use of a application specific prefix as illustrated above is
recommended, but not mandated, so that an app can reliably identify
which of the many OEM strings are targetted at it.
Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220527
This type of information defines attributes of a system
baseboard. With one exception: board type is yet not implemented
in qemu so it's not introduced here either.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move all the system_* fields into a separate struct. Not only this
simplifies the code a bit it also helps us to identify whether BIOS
info is present. We don't have to check all the four variables for
being not-NULL, but we can just check the pointer to the struct.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Move all the bios_* fields into a separate struct. Not only this
simplifies the code a bit it also helps us to identify whether BIOS
info is present. We don't have to check all the four variables for
being not-NULL, but we can just check the pointer to the struct.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
In "src/util/" there are many enumeration (enum) declarations.
Sometimes, it's better using a typedef for variable types,
function types and other usages. Other enumeration will be
changed to typedef's in the future.
Signed-off-by: Julio Faracco <jcfaracco@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
