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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
	mjt@tls.msk.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, vilanova@ac.upc.edu,
	rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 5/9] module: implement module loading function
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 12:02:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5232E2AA.2000700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C973DFB-D08C-495D-A797-F93CC6BE2BE4@alex.org.uk>

Il 13/09/2013 11:56, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
> 
> On 13 Sep 2013, at 09:38, Fam Zheng wrote:
> 
>> Added three types of modules:
>>
>>    typedef enum {
>>        MODULE_LOAD_BLOCK = 0,
>>        MODULE_LOAD_UI,
>>        MODULE_LOAD_NET,
>>        MODULE_LOAD_MAX,
>>    } module_load_type;
>>
>> and their loading function:
> 
> What is the advantage of this enum and having
> different types of module at all? If they are
> all built together, why can't they all live
> together in the same directory?
> 
> Seems like an overcomplication.

At least block have to be separate, since qemu-img and friends do not
have the symbols needed by ui, network and hardware modules.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-13  8:38 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 0/9] Shared Library Module Support Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 1/9] ui/Makefile.objs: delete unnecessary cocoa.o dependency Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 2/9] make.rule: fix $(obj) to a real relative path Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 3/9] rule.mak: allow per object cflags and libs Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 4/9] build-sys: introduce common-obj-m and block-obj-m for DSO Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 5/9] module: implement module loading function Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  9:56   ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-13 10:02     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-09-13 10:38       ` Alex Bligh
2013-09-13 10:05     ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 6/9] module: add configurable module whitelist Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  9:03   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-09-13  9:57     ` Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 7/9] Makefile: install modules with "make install" Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 8/9] .gitignore: ignore module related files (dll, so, mo) Fam Zheng
2013-09-13  8:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 9/9] block: convert block drivers linked with libs to modules Fam Zheng

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