RE: [PATCH v3] Loading new machines and devices from external modules

["Sebelev, Vladimir" <vladimir.sebelev@auriga.com>]

Hi Peter,

Anton previously sent explanation of our position. Nobody commented. Could you please comment on it? It's necessary for us to better understand your position. From our point of view technical ban of external modules loading doesn't solve any of mentioned problems, but makes VP developer life harder.

Best Regards,
Vladimir

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 12:23 PM
To: Drap Anton <drapas86@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sebelev, Vladimir <vladimir.sebelev@auriga.com>; Drap, Anton <anton.drap@auriga.com>; Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>; Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Loading new machines and devices from external modules

On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 at 09:53, Drap Anton <drapas86@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Drap, Anton" <anton.drap@auriga.com>

>     This patch is to add two parameters `add_machine` and `add_modinfo`.
> `add_machine` is to add machines from external modules.
> `add_modinfo` is to add devices from external modules, needed for a 
> new machine, for example.
> Additional, 'arch' parameter of QemuModinfo is changed to a list.

I don't think there's much point in your continuing to post versions of this patchset, because the answer remains "we don't want to do this, as a policy and design decision". Until and unless you persuade us that it's a good idea to change that decision, time spent on code changes doesn't seem like a good use of effort to me.

thanks
-- PMM