[stgt] [PATCH] Modular backends version 3

[Dan Mick]

I think this is a bad idea; this will encourage package builders to 
build a version which cannot be updated/new backends supplied, which 
removes a lot of the advantage of building with .so backends to begin 
with.  Why are we abandoning dynamic-by-default?

On 08/25/2013 12:12 PM, Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
> List, Tomo
>
> Please review and/or apply.
>
> This is the third version of adding support for modular backing stores.
>
> By default TGTD will continue to build as a monolithic binary, like it has
> always done.
> The patch moves some code from other parts of TGTD into bs.c to make the
> modular build possible but apart from moving codend adding a bs_ prefix
> it should not change anything for the default build.
>
> IF TGTD is build with modular support :
> make MODULAR_BUILD=1
> then bs.c will be built into a shared library for support functions and
> the initialization code is changed to automatically try to scan for and load
> all backing store modules installed.
> Additionally bs_aio|null|rbd|rdwr|ssc are built as separate shared modules
> that can be distributed separately from the rest of TGTD.
>
>
> With this patch TGTD will continue to build as a single monolithic binary as
> always but for users that want to have modular backends the changes allow them
> to build a modular version.
>
>
> ronnie sahlberg
>
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