Re: [Qemu-devel] why we build only some optional modules as modules?

[Michael Tokarev]

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. ;)

> But there is no blocking reason to turn other things to modules as well,
> AFAICT.

I think so, too, yes.

Thank you!

/mjt