From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, famz@redhat.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, alex@alex.org.uk, vilanova@ac.upc.edu,
rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 5/8] module: implement module loading
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 13:00:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5236E4C0.5050007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379329037.7114.35.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org>
Il 16/09/2013 12:57, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
>> With this patch, a module will not be able to use the module_init macro
>> twice. I am not sure this is an acceptable limitation, especially if we
>> do not have a dependency system within modules and/or load them with
>> G_MODULE_LOCAL/RTLD_LOCAL.
>
> Exactly. To modularize spice we need either inter-module dependencies,
> so spice-audio.mo can depend on spice-core.mo etc, or allow multiple
> module_init calls so we can link all spice components into one big
> spice.mo module and each component can use module_init.
We could also have a huge web of shared objects like LibreOffice has
(spice-core.so depending on qemu-system.so, and spice.mo depending on
spice-core.so), but I'm not really suggesting that...
Paolo
> It's not mandatory for the initial revision, we'll need a bit more (like
> registering monitor commands for 'info spice') so we can actually
> modularize spice. But it should definitively on the radar for the
> planning ...
>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-16 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-16 6:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 0/8] Shared Library Module Support Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 1/8] ui/Makefile.objs: delete unnecessary cocoa.o dependency Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 2/8] make.rule: fix $(obj) to a real relative path Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 3/8] rule.mak: allow per object cflags and libs Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 4/8] build-sys: introduce common-obj-m and block-obj-m for DSO Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 5/8] module: implement module loading Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 8:59 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-16 9:28 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 22:16 ` Richard Henderson
2013-09-17 0:47 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 9:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 9:51 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 10:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 10:14 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-16 10:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 10:21 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-16 10:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 11:29 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 11:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 11:46 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 22:31 ` Richard Henderson
2013-09-17 1:29 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-17 5:40 ` Richard Henderson
2013-09-18 11:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-18 14:44 ` Richard Henderson
2013-09-18 15:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-17 8:50 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-09-16 10:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-09-16 11:00 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-09-16 22:38 ` Richard Henderson
2013-09-16 10:24 ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-16 10:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 11:00 ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-16 11:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-16 11:27 ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-16 11:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-16 11:30 ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-17 8:26 ` Wenchao Xia
2013-09-16 10:43 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 11:05 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-16 12:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2013-09-17 5:55 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-17 6:33 ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-17 6:40 ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 6/8] Makefile: install modules with "make install" Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 7/8] .gitignore: ignore module related files (dll, so, mo) Fam Zheng
2013-09-16 6:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 8/8] block: convert block drivers linked with libs to modules Fam Zheng
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