Merge tag 'upstream/5.0.1'

Upstream version 5.0.1

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstrongswan/plugins/plugin_loader.h b/src/libstrongswan/plugins/plugin_loader.h
index 7fd07044d..94181dbb6 100644
--- a/src/libstrongswan/plugins/plugin_loader.h
+++ b/src/libstrongswan/plugins/plugin_loader.h
@@ -26,12 +26,36 @@ typedef struct plugin_loader_t plugin_loader_t;
 
 #include <utils/enumerator.h>
 
+/* to avoid circular references we can't include plugin_feature.h */
+struct plugin_feature_t;
+
 /**
  * The plugin_loader loads plugins from a directory and initializes them
  */
 struct plugin_loader_t {
 
 	/**
+	 * Add static plugin features, not loaded via plugins.
+	 *
+	 * Similar to features provided by plugins they are evaluated during load(),
+	 * and unloaded when unload() is called.
+	 *
+	 * If critical is TRUE load() will fail if any of the added features could
+	 * not be loaded.
+	 *
+	 * @note The name should be unique otherwise a plugin with the same name is
+	 * not loaded.
+	 *
+	 * @param name			name of the component adding the features
+	 * @param features		array of plugin features
+	 * @param count			number of features in the array
+	 * @param critical		TRUE if the features are critical
+	 */
+	void (*add_static_features) (plugin_loader_t *this, const char *name,
+								 struct plugin_feature_t *features, int count,
+								 bool critical);
+
+	/**
 	 * Load a list of plugins from a directory.
 	 *
 	 * Each plugin in list may have a ending exclamation mark (!) to mark it