Il 16/09/2013 12:57, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto: > Hi, > >> With this patch, a module will not be able to use the module_init macro >> twice. I am not sure this is an acceptable limitation, especially if we >> do not have a dependency system within modules and/or load them with >> G_MODULE_LOCAL/RTLD_LOCAL. > > Exactly. To modularize spice we need either inter-module dependencies, > so spice-audio.mo can depend on spice-core.mo etc, or allow multiple > module_init calls so we can link all spice components into one big > spice.mo module and each component can use module_init.
We could also have a huge web of shared objects like LibreOffice has (spice-core.so depending on qemu-system.so, and spice.mo depending on spice-core.so), but I'm not really suggesting that... Paolo > It's not mandatory for the initial revision, we'll need a bit more (like > registering monitor commands for 'info spice') so we can actually > modularize spice. But it should definitively on the radar for the > planning ... > > cheers, > Gerd > > >
