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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

No this is mostly just legacy stuff that was never refactored.

Vish
On May 9, 2012 3:33 PM, "Sean Dague" <sdague@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm familiarizing myself with the nova code and trying to reconcile that
> while there is dynamic class based loading in ComputeManager using
> import_utils in __init__() there is also a defaulting to the
> nova.virt.connection.get_**connection function.
>
> That's actually got a big if / else statement of string literals of known
> virt drivers, and then loads specific virt drivers from there.
>
> Is there a reason for both approaches? Can we refactor to a point where we
> don't need need of a common file with driver specific imports and string
> literals? Is there a reason not to?
>
> Thanks,
>
>        -Sean
>
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> Sean Dague
> IBM Linux Technology Center
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