Am 10.03.2015 um 15:01 hat Michael Tokarev geschrieben: > 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.
The problem with that would be that format probing wouldn't work any more for drivers that aren't loaded yet. Kevin
