10.03.2015 16:58, Stefan Hajnoczi пишет: > 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.
That might be useful if module loading will be modified a bit, like by loadin modules on demand only. Something like this, search a "foo" block driver in the registered list, found -> use it, if not, try to open block-foo.so (maybe after looking in the "available" internal list before that) and look up in the registered list again. That will make it more useful. Thanks, /mjt
