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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v10 5/8] module: implement module loading
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To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, famz@redhat.com, mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, vilanova@ac.upc.edu, rth@twiddle.net

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:00:47PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> However, even if you don't use weak symbols, we could simply dlopen()
> a fixed list of modules known at compile time from a single directory
> (because we also know at compile which executable needs what, e.g.
> that qemu-img doesn't need spice or whatever).

That's what this latest patch series already does, albeit with some
redundant complexity of trying to split the modules into UI/Net/Block
lists.

Daniel
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