From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41645 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PKXqb-000443-Q8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:58:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKXqQ-0007DX-6P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:58:25 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:8319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PKXqP-0007DK-W0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:58:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4CEA8501.9040603@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:58:09 +0100 From: Jes Sorensen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] NBD isn't used by qemu-img, so don't link qemu-img against NBD objects References: <1290184248-30078-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <4CEA6102.3020709@redhat.com> <4CEA794F.40506@redhat.com> <4CEA7AFD.2050609@redhat.com> <4CEA7DBD.9020904@redhat.com> <4CEA806C.8040501@redhat.com> <4CEA8437.4090900@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4CEA8437.4090900@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin Wolf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 11/22/10 15:54, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 11/22/2010 08:38 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> You're free to dislike NBD as much as you want. Just compiling it out >> unconditionally and calling it a cleanup is a bit too much. ;-) >> >> A configure option for disabling NBD sounds reasonable, though I'm not >> sure what you're trying to achieve with it. It doesn't have any external >> dependencies that you could avoid this way, does it? >> > > Using block format whitelisting should be enough to disable nbd. I > don't see a need for an explicit --disable-nbd option. Right, the right solution is probably to create a block driver list argument for configure, similar to what we have for the sound drivers. Ignore my patch. Cheers, Jes