[Libvir] Nothing ever calls the driver ->init function, right?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:02:01PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>> ... or at least I can't see it being called anywhere.
>>   It should probably, currently only xenHypervisorInit is hooked,
>> and we call it as part of the Open() ... that's not very clean though
>> I'm not sure it should be called directly from virInitialize() as we
>> may need only a subset of the available drivers in a given session.
> 
> I don't see any particular need for a special 'init' method in the driver
> API - as you say the only impl is for xenHypervisorInit and that's called
> directly by the Open() as needed. So I vote for killing the 'init' driver
> method.

If we just delete this method, are we breaking our commitment to 
ABI-compatibility?

Rich.

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