Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/dmg: make it modular if using additional library

[Peter Wu]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:06:04AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> block/dmg can use additional library (libbz2) to read
> bzip2-compressed files.  Make the block driver to be
> a module if libbz2 support is requested, to avoid extra
> library dependency by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <address@hidden>

Tested-by: Peter Wu <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu <address@hidden>

> --
> 
> This might be questionable, to make the thing to be either
> module or built-in depending on build environment, so a
> better idea may be to make it modular unconditionally.
> This block device format isn't used often.

I do not mind making it a module unconditionally, that would make it
easier to disable should a security bug come around the corner.

Kind regards,
Peter

>  block/Makefile.objs | 3 ++-
>  configure           | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/Makefile.objs b/block/Makefile.objs
> index db2933e..440c51f 100644
> --- a/block/Makefile.objs
> +++ b/block/Makefile.objs
> @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
> -block-obj-y += raw_bsd.o qcow.o vdi.o vmdk.o cloop.o dmg.o bochs.o vpc.o 
> vvfat.o
> +block-obj-y += raw_bsd.o qcow.o vdi.o vmdk.o cloop.o bochs.o vpc.o vvfat.o
>  block-obj-y += qcow2.o qcow2-refcount.o qcow2-cluster.o qcow2-snapshot.o 
> qcow2-cache.o
>  block-obj-y += qed.o qed-gencb.o qed-l2-cache.o qed-table.o qed-cluster.o
>  block-obj-y += qed-check.o
> +block-obj-$(CONFIG_DMG) += dmg.o
>  block-obj-$(CONFIG_VHDX) += vhdx.o vhdx-endian.o vhdx-log.o
>  block-obj-$(CONFIG_QUORUM) += quorum.o
>  block-obj-y += parallels.o blkdebug.o blkverify.o
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 7ba4bcb..1dd5721 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -4772,6 +4772,9 @@ fi
>  if test "$bzip2" = "yes" ; then
>    echo "CONFIG_BZIP2=y" >> $config_host_mak
>    echo "BZIP2_LIBS=-lbz2" >> $config_host_mak
> +  echo "CONFIG_DMG=m" >> $config_host_mak
> +else
> +  echo "CONFIG_DMG=y" >> $config_host_mak
>  fi
>  
>  if test "$libiscsi" = "yes" ; then
> -- 
> 2.1.4
>