<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Russell Bryant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbryant@redhat.com" target="_blank">rbryant@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> What about publishing the API as blacklisted by default? This way it<br>
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> would be available only to users that enable it explicitly, while still<br>
> supporting the scenario described above.<br>
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</div>It still makes no sense to me to merge an API for a feature that can't<br>
be used.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>While it's true that there won't be an in-tree driver that supports the API for this release cycle, we have a commercial driver that supports it (<a href="https://github.com/gridcentric/cobalt">https://github.com/gridcentric/cobalt</a>).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Having the API standardized in Havana would ensure that client support is immediately available for our users as well as for the other hypervisor vendors should they release a supporting driver in the next 9 months. I believe there is precedent for publishing a nova API for those purposes.</div>
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Russell Bryant<br>
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