Re: virtiofsd: Where should it live?

[Greg Kurz]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 13:10:46 +0000
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Paolo Bonzini (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On 03/12/19 14:02, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > >> It could be in fsdev/virtiofsd,
> > > fsdev is currently all 9p stuff, so that would seem very confusing.
> > 
> > Move it to fsdev/9p?
> 
> Greg: Are you OK with us doing that, and then having fsdev/virtiofsd for
> our side of things?
> 

That's okay with me.

> > >> but I agree with Daniel that at this
> > >> point the QEMU build system introduces baggage that you may not want for
> > >> virtiofsd.
> > >
> > > I've already got it wired up in contrib with qemu's build system
> > > so that doesn't seem to be an issue.   The question is purely a 'where'.
> > 
> > Oh I agree it's not an insurmountable problem.  For a new project I may
> > not want to deal with the complicated rules.mak stuff; however, if
> > virtiofsd doesn't have to do anything complicated then it's your choice.
> 
> Fortunately we don't seem to have touched that.
> 
> Dave
> 
> > Paolo
> > 
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> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK
>