Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 00/10] Enable direct use of secondary drivers

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:35:27PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Currently the secondary drivers can only be used if you have a > connection to a primary hypervisor driver. This series introduces > explicit URIs that allow opening a connection that only talks to a > specific secondary driver. In the future these URIs will resolve to > individual daemons containing those drivers. > > This also allows us to fix long standing problems with most code that > uses secrets internally. We need to pass a virConnectPtr into such code > but some call stacks don't have a connection available. In some cases we > open a temporary connection to the QEMU driver, but this is suboptimal > for deployments without the QEMU driver present. > > Daniel P. Berrangé (10): > storage: move driver registration back to end of the file > storage: allow opening with storage:///system and storage:///session > URIs > network: move driver registration back to end of the file > network: allow opening with network:///system and network:///session > URIs > nwfilter: allow opening with nwfilter:///system URI > interface: allow opening with interface:///system and > interface:///session URIs > nodedev: allow opening with nodedev:///system and nodedev:///session > URIs > secret: allow opening with secret:///system and secret:///session URIs > storage: open secret driver connection at time of use > storage: remove virConnectPtr from all backend functions Doc update would be nice as well, or are you planning on adding that as part of separate series?