Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] user-mode: Prune build dependencies (part 3)

[Alex Bennée]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> On 30/09/20 19:15, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 06:49:38PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> This is the third part of a series reducing user-mode
>>> dependencies. By stripping out unused code, the build
>>> and testing time is reduced (as is space used by objects).
>> I'm queueing patches 2-9 on machine-next.  Thanks!
>> 
>> Markus, Eric: I can merge the QAPI patches (1, 11) if I get an
>> Acked-by.
>> 
>> I'll send separate comments on patch 10.
>> 
>
> 1-8 is fine, but I think 9-11 is too much complication (especially not
> really future-proof) for the benefit.

Isn't qdev considered an internal API for our object and device lifetime
handling (which should be shared) versus QAPI which only exists for
system emulation and tool integration? That is of course assuming
libvirt is never going to want to know about linux-user emulation?

>
> Paolo


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Alex Bennée