[libvirt] [PATCH 5/8] api: Add text and references for drivers section

--- docs/api.html.in | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/api.html.in b/docs/api.html.in index 9855b39..51d6527 100644 --- a/docs/api.html.in +++ b/docs/api.html.in @@ -161,14 +161,31 @@ <p> For more in-depth details of the storage related APIs see <a href="storage.html">the storage management page</a>. </p> - <h2><a name="Driver">The libvirt drivers</a></h2> - <p></p> + <h2><a name="Drivers">The libvirt Drivers</a></h2> + <p>Drivers are the basic building block for libvirt functionality + to support the capability to handle specific hypervisor driver calls. + Drivers are discovered and registered during connection processing as + part of the <code class='docref'>virInitialize</code> API. Each driver + has a registration API which loads up the driver specific function + references for the libvirt APIs to call. The following is a simplistic + view of the hypervisor driver mechanism. Consider the stacked list of + drivers as a series of modules that can be plugged into the architecture + depending on how libvirt is configured to be built.</p> <p class="image"> <img alt="The libvirt driver architecture" src="libvirt-driver-arch.png"/> </p> - <h2><a name="Remote">Daemon and remote access</a></h2> - <p></p> + <p>The driver architecture is also used to support other virtualization + components such as storage, storage pools, host device, networking, + network interfaces, and network filters.</p> + <p>See the <a href="drivers.html">libvirt drivers</a> page for more + information on hypervisor and storage specific drivers.</p> + <p>Not all drivers support every virtualization function possible. + The <a href="hvsupport.html">libvirt API support matrix</a> lists + the various functions and support found in each driver by the version + support was added into libvirt. + </p> + <h2><a name="Remote">Daemon and Remote Access</a></h2> <p class="image"> <img alt="The libvirt daemon and remote architecture" src="libvirt-daemon-arch.png"/> -- 1.7.11.7