Re: [libvirt PATCH v2 15/16] api: add virNodeDeviceCreate()

This new API function provides a way to start a persistently-defined mediate device that was defined by virNodeDeviceDefineXML() (or one that was defined externally via mdevctl) Signed-off-by: Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma(a)redhat.com&gt; --- include/libvirt/libvirt-nodedev.h | 2 + src/driver-nodedev.h | 4 ++ src/libvirt-nodedev.c | 35 +++++++++++ src/libvirt_public.syms | 1 + src/node_device/node_device_driver.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++ src/node_device/node_device_driver.h | 6 ++ src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 1 + src/remote/remote_driver.c | 1 + src/remote/remote_protocol.x | 14 ++++- src/remote_protocol-structs | 4 ++ tests/nodedevmdevctldata/mdevctl-create.argv | 1 + tests/nodedevmdevctltest.c | 11 +++- 12 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tests/nodedevmdevctldata/mdevctl-create.argv

+static int +virMdevctlCreate(virNodeDeviceDefPtr def)

+{ + int status; + g_autoptr(virCommand) cmd = NULL; + + cmd = nodeDeviceGetMdevctlCreateCommand(def->caps->data.mdev.uuid); + + if (virCommandRun(cmd, &status) < 0 || status != 0) + return -1; + + return 0; +} + +