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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] configure: remove --enable-replication/--di
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Stefan Hajnoczi |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] configure: remove --enable-replication/--disable-replication |
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Fri, 3 Feb 2017 15:00:50 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 07:05:30AM -0800, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The replication feature is a small amount of code, does not
> require any external library and unless used does not add
> anything to the guest's attack surface. Since any extra
> configure option affects maintainability on the other hand
> and is subject to bit rot, I think there is no need to
> make it configurable.
I think the current state is good: replication is enabled by default but
can be compiled out if desired.
Downstreams may not be comfortable supporting this feature yet since
it's incomplete. It's fair to offer an option to disable it, otherwise
downstreams will have to patch this themselves.
Stefan
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