[libvirt] [PATCH 15/20] Provide missing passphrase when creating a volume.

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Sep 1 19:56:07 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:58:12PM -0400, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> ----- "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > I reckon this snippet of code could usefully be put into the util.h file
> > > > as virFileGenerateRandomkey(), or alternatively perhaps secret_conf.h, 
> > > > as virSecretGenerateRandomKey(unsigned char *buf, size_t buflen);
> > > This code, with its limitation to ASCII characters, is
> > qcow/qemu-specific.
> > 
> > Ok, lets leave it in the QEMU driver file then
> AFAICS the qemu and storage drivers can be built as modules, this would 
> create a dependency.  I'll just split the code into a separate function 
> for now.

Yes, you can't introduce dependancies between individual drivers. You
could move it out into the storage_encryption_conf.c/.h file, rather
that util.c. That would make it clearer that its just for the qcow 
encryption case


Daniel
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