Re: [PATCH 0/4] modules: add support for target-specific modules.

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

> > Hmm, what would be the use case?  Right now qemu has the all-or-nothing
> > approach for modules, i.e. if modules are enabled everything we can
> > build as module will be built as module, and I havn't seen any drawbacks
> > so far.  So, why would one compile parts of qemu as module and other
> > parts not?
> 
> From my point of view, as a QEMU package maintainer, the all-or-nothing module 
> approach is great - specially for accelerators - because we can create a set 
> of officially supported packages and another set of optional modules, that 
> users may get them if they want to.

Same here ;)

> However, please correct me if I'm wrong, I understand that an accelerator as a 
> module will add an overhead that some user won't be willing to pay. So, give 
> them the option to have built-in accelerators seems a good idea.

Modules add some overhead, yes, and there are surely use-cases where you
don't want accel modules.  I would just expect people don't want the
other modules either then, but maybe I'm wrong.

take care,
  Gerd