[openstack-dev] [nova] FFE for entrypoints driver loading

Kevin L. Mitchell kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com
Tue Aug 21 16:26:20 UTC 2012


On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 09:45 -0600, Monty Taylor wrote:
> I'd like to request a FFE for the following:
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/11027/
> 
> The patch adds the ability to register and load virt drivers via
> entrypoints. There are a couple of virt drivers that I've been involved
> with or that I'm becoming involved with, such as the openvz driver and
> the bare-metal work, that aren't going to land this cycle. But there's
> no real reason why it needs to be quite so wonky to have a virt driver
> out of tree. (patch was driven by trying to figure out ways to have CI
> test these things _before_ we had them landed or ever proposed)

I like the basic idea.  If we're sure this can be finished up before
final release, I think it's something we should let in…
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>




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