Re: [libvirt] RFC: Drop unmaintained hv drivers? (phyp, xenapi, hyperv)
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 09:11:24AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
Maybe someone will chime in to prove me wrong, but what if the
situation is
that there's no active maintainer, and no active users? Then it truly _is_
serving no purpose, and IMO even advertising it is actively harmful since it
may lead users down a dead end path
Removing a driver doesn't need to be the end either... if someone motivated
shows up they can always revive the old code
If the code is removed, it will no longer be kept up to date with
internal libvirt APIs and concepts and latest compiler warning
workarounds, so the work of getting it up to date would be on this
motivated person. That could make the motivation disappear rather
quickly :)
Jan
...now that I do some more targeted searches looking for patches,
looks like
someone from bull.net did try to massively expand the hyperv driver a few
years back, but it was an awkward code dump:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-October/msg00257.html
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