[libvirt] [PATCH 01/10] Only build server side drivers as modules

[Eric Blake]

On 05/21/2012 01:59 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> The driver modules all use symbols which are defined in libvirt.so.
> Thus for loading of modules to work, the binary that libvirt.so
> is linked to must be exported its symbols back to modules. If the

s/must be exported/must export/

> libvirt.so itself is dlopen()d then the RTLD_GLOBAL flag must
> be set. Unfortunately few, if any, programming languages use
> the RTLD_GLOBAL flag when loading modules :-( This means is it
> not practical to use driver modules for any libvirt client side
> drivers (OpenVZ, VMWare, Hyper-V, Remote client, test).
> 
> This patch changes the build process so only server side drivers
> are built as modules (Xen, QEMU, LXC, UML)
> 
> * daemon/libvirtd.c: Add missing load of 'interface' driver
> * src/Makefile.am: Only build server side drivers as modules
> * src/libvirt.c: Don't load any driver modules
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  daemon/libvirtd.c |   29 +++++++++++-
>  src/Makefile.am   |   75 ++-----------------------------
>  src/libvirt.c     |  129 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-)
> 

ACK.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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