[libvirt] [PATCH 00/10 v2] Enable loadable modules for libvirtd

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 02:41:02PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:59:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > A simple rebase of
> > 
> >   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg00045.html
> > 
> > For a long timer we've had the ability to build each libvirt
> > driver as a loadable module. We have never used this by default
> > and as a result it constantly bit-rots.
> > 
> > This series fixes various bugs, and then enables it by default
> > in configure. It also makes the PRMs use the loadable modules,
> > adding new new sub-RPMs for each module. We can now finally
> > install minimal libvirt binaries for each hypervisor.
> > 
> > ie  yum install libvirt-daemon-kvm
> > 
> >  will not pull in Xen libraries!
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> > 
> >  - Fix build with dtrace
> >  - Rebase to latest GIT master
> 
>   ACK on the general idea, I see Eric reviewed the patches already.
> I would suggest we add a note (mainly in docs/drivers.html.in and
> possibly in docs/internals.html.in) stating that the APIs used by
> the drivers are internal and not part of the ABI guarantees even
> if they are distributed as separate shared library.
>   Historically we had punted on enabling shared libraries to avoid
> proprietary drivers, now the daemon runs as GPL by the virtue of linking
> with GPL libraries so that may discourage such behaviour but we should
> at least make clear that we won't make shipping out of source drivers
> an easy task :)

Ok, I'll add some docs about this.

Daniel
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