On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote: > Am 10.03.2015 um 10:17 hat Fam Zheng geschrieben: >> On Tue, 03/10 09:50, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> > Am 10.03.2015 um 08:06 hat Michael Tokarev geschrieben: >> > Also, should we consider making some more rarely used image formats >> > modules even if they don't pull in external dependencies? >> >> Sounds reasonable to me. Is the intention to reduce binary size? > > Yes, that and also that it allows compiling out some drivers without > having to mess with the Makefiles. You just don't install all of them. > > Related to that, Peter also mentioned that you (the user, not developer > or packager) could simply disable a single driver, for example as a > temporary hotfix in the case of security problems in a block driver. > That would actually be an argument for making _all_ drivers modules.
I am for making all block drivers built as modules. Stefan
