On Sun, 04/06 10:17, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 06.04.2014 04:52, Fam Zheng wrote: > > On Sat, 04/05 18:29, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> A quick (hopefully) question. > >> > >> Why build-as-modules only enabled for a few optional modules only, > >> why not build as modules everything, to reduce common executable > >> size? Or is it not a concern anymore at our disk sizes? :) > > > > The original demand was to reduce package dependencies of distribution QEMU, > > hence not everything is (planned to be) modularized. > > Please note that current situation/implementation has one detail which > prevents this usage: when any module is missing, qemu complains at > startup about this. So at this stage, the original goal is not met. ;)
True but I don't know either, my original patch didn't complain about this. :) > > > But there is no blocking reason to turn other things to modules as well, > > AFAICT. > > I think so, too, yes. > And it would be good if you have a reason to do it. Fam
