[virt-tools-list] [PATCH rhsrvany] add a tool to wait for PnP installations to complete

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:58:48PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:14:47PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:27:33AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:48:52PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > > Windows PnP manager may start driver installations asynchronously upon
> > > > receiving notifications from kernel mode PnP system about discovery of
> > > > new devices.
> > > > 
> > > > Those installations may interact destructively with other
> > > > installation/uninstallation activities, either initiated by a user or
> > > > started from another service.
> > > > 
> > > > Add a tool which can wait until the installations initiated by the PnP
> > > > manager are finished (or the timeout elapses), which allows to serialize
> > > > them with user- or script- initiated ones.
> > > > 
> > > > A foreseen user of this tool is libguestfs/v2v.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan at virtuozzo.com>
> > > 
> > > I've added you as a committer on github.com/rwmjones/rhsrvany (which
> > > given the confusion here I'm not sure is the true upstream, or if it
> > > should be).
> > 
> > At least libguestfs code refers to it so I believe for rhsrvany de facto
> > it is.
> > 
> > > Anyway you can commit this if you like.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps we should make / choose a better upstream for this?
> > 
> > I don't mind.  I just wanted to publish it somehow as I'm about to post
> > a patch to libguestfs which uses it.  Creating a dedicated public repo
> > for a trivial program like this looked like an overkill, so I posted it
> > as a patch against rhsrvany repo.  If anybody has a better idea I'm all
> > open.
> 
> That's fine.  Anyway should be able to push this to the
> rwmjones/rhsrvany repo.  Let me know if you have any problems with
> github.

Pushed.

Thanks,
Roman.