From: keith.busch@intel.com (Keith Busch)
Subject: nvme-cli plugins
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 11:18:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160608151811.GD1430@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160608130754.GA31553@lst.de>
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016@03:07:54PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016@06:39:09PM -0400, Keith Busch wrote:
> > It also adds support for dynamically loaded plug-ins. This is so a
> > 3rd party or vendor can extend the program without having their stuff
> > in-tree. It accomplishes this using the dynamic linking loader (dlopen,
> > dlsym, and friends) to open and register symbols.
>
> I'm really worried about dlopen()able symbols. They mean you now
> expose an ABI, and once in distros will probably cause all kinds of
> vendors to ask for ABI stability.
I'm happy to drop it for now, but would like something like this since
the demand exists. If we get the right ABI, maitaining it shouldn't much
trouble; 'fio' does dynamic loading for ioengines, and nvme-cli is a
small project in comparison.
I would like to get it right the first time, so no particular rush yet.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-08 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-07 15:19 NVMe over Fabrics support for nvme-cli Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 01/11] Makefile: introduce OBJS variable Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 02/11] Support Get Log Page extended Number of Dwords Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 03/11] Add NVMeoF definition to nvme.h Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 04/11] Add macro helpers to common.h Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 05/11] Adds nvme_discovery_log() Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 06/11] Adds parser library Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 07/11] Implement discover command Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 08/11] Add option to save discovery raw log to a file Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 09/11] Implement connect command Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 10/11] Implement disconnect command Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 15:19 ` [PATCH 11/11] implement the connect-all command Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-07 18:42 ` NVMe over Fabrics support for nvme-cli Keith Busch
2016-06-07 22:39 ` Keith Busch
[not found] ` <20160608130754.GA31553@lst.de>
2016-06-08 15:18 ` Keith Busch [this message]
2016-06-07 20:08 ` Steve Wise
2016-06-07 20:25 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2016-06-07 20:31 ` Ming Lin
2016-06-07 20:32 ` Steve Wise
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