On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 7:09 PM Rohitashv Kumar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Rohitashv Kumar <[email protected]>
>
> With modular builds, the system/block module loop adds the common
> boilerplate (modulecommon) to every registered module and emits a
> shared_module unconditionally.  A module whose device sources are all
> disabled by the configuration then still produces a shared object
> containing nothing but the boilerplate: an empty stub that provides no
> devices and only complicates packaging.
>
> This happens when a module is registered under a broader condition than
> the one gating its sources, e.g. hw-display-virtio-gpu-pci (registered on
> CONFIG_VIRTIO_PCI, sources need CONFIG_VIRTIO_GPU) in a build without
> virtio-gpu, or hw-s390x-virtio-gpu-ccw (registered unconditionally,
> source needs CONFIG_VIRTIO_CCW) in a build without an s390x target.
>
> The target_modules loop already skips modules whose applied source set is
> empty; make the system/block loop consistent and do the same.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohitashv Kumar <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>

> ---
>  meson.build | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 49a5baf5..557edd71 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -3903,6 +3903,9 @@ foreach d, list : modules
>      if enable_modules
>        module_ss.add(modulecommon)
>        module_ss = module_ss.apply(config_all_devices, strict: false)
> +      if module_ss.sources() == []
> +        continue
> +      endif
>        sl = static_library(d + '-' + m, [genh, module_ss.sources()],
>                            dependencies: module_ss.dependencies(), pic: true)
>        if d == 'block'
> --
> 2.47.3
>


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