Re: [PATCH 0/1] Update vfio-user module to the latest

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/08/2022 12.00, Zhang, Chen wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Qemu-devel <qemu-devel-
> > bounces+chen.zhang=intel.com@nongnu.org> On Behalf Of Jagannathan
> > Raman
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 9:24 AM
> > To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> > Cc: stefanha@gmail.com; berrange@redhat.com
> > Subject: [PATCH 0/1] Update vfio-user module to the latest
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch updates the libvfio-user submodule to the latest.
>
> Just a rough idea, why not depends on linux distribution for the 
> libvfio-user.so?
> It looks no libvfio-user packet in distribution's repo.
>
> Hi Thomas/Daniel:
>
> For the RFC QEMU user space eBPF support,
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220617073630.535914-6-chen.zhang@intel.com/T/
> Maybe introduce the libubpf.so as a subproject like libvfio-user.so is more 
> appropriate?

Fair comment. I never noticed them before, but why do we have those 
submodules in the subprojects/ folder (libvduse, libvfio-user and 
libvhost-user)? ... I don't think it's the job of QEMU to ship libraries 
that a user might want to use for a certain feature, so could we please 
remove those submodules again? If someone wants to use this, they can 
compile the libraries on their own or help their favorite distribution to 
ship them as packages.

 Thomas