Re: [libvirt PATCH v6 00/30] Add support for persistent mediated devices

This patch series follows the previously-merged series which added support for transient mediated devices. This series expands mdev support to include persistent device definitions. Again, it relies on mdevctl as the backend. It follows the common libvirt pattern of APIs by adding the following new APIs for node devices: - virNodeDeviceDefineXML() - defines a persistent device - virNodeDeviceUndefine() - undefines a persistent device - virNodeDeviceCreate() - starts a previously-defined device It also adds virsh commands mapping to these new APIs: nodedev-define, nodedev-undefine, and nodedev-start. Since we rely on mdevctl for the definition of mediated devices, we need a way to stay up-to-date with devices that are defined by mdevctl (outside of libvirt). The method for staying up-to-date is currently a little bit crude due to the fact that mdevctl does not emit any events when new devices are added or removed. As a workaround, we create a file monitor for the mdevctl config directory and re-query mdevctl when we detect changes within that directory. In the future, mdevctl may introduce a more elegant solution. Changes in v6: - rebase to git master again - remove typedefs for various *Ptr types, since they're now discouraged in libvirt.