Re: Supporting out of tree custom vhost target modules

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:48:59PM +0200, David George wrote:
> Thanks for the response Michael.
> 
> And apologies for the earlier html content.
> 
> > See no good reason for that, that header is there so modules outside
> > of vhost don't use it by mistake.
> 
> I suppose what I would really be suggesting is adding the possibility
> of a driver outside of vhost/ being able to include _something_,
> enough for it to implement its own vhost target. If you don't see this
> as being useful outside of my use, or my case too narrow, then I
> suppose there probably is no good reason.
> 
> Alternatively, what did you think of the suggestion of introducing a
> mechanism of a custom backend for vhost_net? In principal it could
> make the existing mechanism a little neater perhaps?
> 
> David

An out of tree module isn't a usecase I care about.
If you make the code neater, I'll be happy to accept the patch.


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