[libvirt PATCH 0/4] Support autostart for mediated devices

[Jonathon Jongsma]

On Tue, 2021-05-25 at 11:20 +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 04:28:57PM -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > This is a short patch series based on an initial patch from Boris
> > Fiuczynski
> > that I massaged a little bit and added a few additional patches.
> > 
> > This allows you to define mediated devices in libvirt which are
> > started
> > automatically at boot or parent device plugin.
> 
> Sorry I missed review of this series before it was merged, but I
> think
> this design aproach is seriously wrong. This is exposing autostart as
> an XML property, but in all other parts of libvirt we expose
> autostart
> as an explicit API. I think we need to make the implemnentation
> consistent with the rest of libvirt.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel


Hmm, you're right. Sorry I didn't catch that. Should we revert these
patches for now then? I'll try to come up with a new implementation.

Jonathon