From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJGRY-0005FY-3W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:06:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJGRT-0005Ei-MU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:06:43 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46374 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJGRT-0005Ef-J0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:06:39 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39534) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJGRS-0001tv-VC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:06:39 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NJGPH-0007OY-5I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:23 +0100 Received: from 85.93.118.17 ([85.93.118.17]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:23 +0100 Received: from pbonzini by 85.93.118.17 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:23 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:03:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1393046876.1549021260539141025.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <4B226BFC.1040606@codemonkey.ws> <20091211204828.464707cf@redhat.com> <4B2297A2.8040102@codemonkey.ws> <20091211212135.645864f9@redhat.com> <4B229DCE.7070500@codemonkey.ws> <20091211213911.0dce90dc@redhat.com> <4B22A2D9.6020602@codemonkey.ws> <20091211223250.129675fc@redhat.com> <4B22B035.3010601@codemonkey.ws> <20091211233158.22e6681f@redhat.com> <4B22C093.2090806@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <4B22C093.2090806@codemonkey.ws> Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 12/11/2009 10:58 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > The concerns have been 1) they will be abused with the introduction > of proprietary plugins How so? > 2) we would have tremendous difficulty maintaining a stable plugin abi Then don't promise it. GCC doesn't for example. (And it solves problem 1 too!...) > 3) they would create stability issues > in qemu because the plugin quality cannot be controlled. How is this different from 3rd party modules in the kernel? Paolo