[libvirt] [PATCH] Remove phyp driver

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Dec 18 15:51:50 UTC 2019


On 12/18/19 10:43 AM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> The phyp driver was added in 2009 and does not appear to have had any
> real feature change since 2011. There's virtually no evidence online
> of users actually using it. IMO it's time to kill it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
> ---
> I raised this in 3.5 years ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-April/msg01060.html
> 
> Not much on phyp/ side has changed since then, except dozens of dev
> patches transitioning the code forward.
> 
> That mail also mentions xenapi and hyperv. hyperv saw signs of life
> afterwards and is still around. xenapi has been removed, along with uml.
> 
> Considering the amount of code transitions we are currently undergoing
> (gnulib, glib, memory auto cleanup, etc), phyp/ will probably have an
> uptick of dev energy in the medium term. Let's bite the bullet and
> remove it!

With this squashed in too, forgot about 'grep -i'

Maybe the auth.html.in bit can be entirely removed, I need to study how
that works

- Cole
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