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The parent can be any type of device. It defaults to type=none, and a NULL pointer. The intent is that if a hostdevdef is contained in the def for a higher level device (e.g. virDomainNetDef), hostdev->parent will point to the higher level device, and type will be set to that type of device. This way, during attach and detach of the device, parent can be checked, and appropriate callouts made to do higher level device initialization (e.g. setting MAC address). Also, although these hostdevs with parents will be added to a domain's hostdevs list, they will be treated slightly differently when traversing the list, e.g. virDomainHostdefDefFree for a hostdev that has a parent doesn't need to be called (and will be a NOP); it will simply be removed from the list (since the parent device object is in its own type-specific list, and will be freed from there).
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>