If this is the way to go, anyone that is better at makefiles than I want to help clean it up a bit ? On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:00 PM, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Take a look at this, it is a hack but builds a tgtlib containing most > of tgtd except tgtd.c (so the modules can link back to things in tgtd) > and builds the 4 main backends as shared objects. > Once tgtd starts up (you have to add /usr/lib/tgt to ldconfig so that > the linker/loader can find libtgt.so) > it will scan /usr/lib/tgt/backing-stores and dlopen and invoke all > bs_*.so it finds there. > > This should allow just dropping different backends indepentently of > the main tgtd > > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:54 AM, ronnie sahlberg > <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Or maybe better is just have it try to dlopen every file it finds in >> /usr/lib/tgtd/backing-store/ automatically on startup. >> >> Since the bs_*.c files use a lot of other symbols from usr/*.c we >> probably need to turn most of tgtd into a shared library so that the >> bs_*.so modules can be dlopened and link to the symbol,s they need. >> One way of doing this is to change the build so that tgtd.c is the >> main program and everything else becomes a /usr/lib/tgt/libtgt.so >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Andy Grover <agrover@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 08/05/2013 02:19 PM, ronnie sahlberg wrote: >>>> >>>> I think this would be very useful and good thing to have. >>>> >>>> I am willing to help work on doing this for the backing-stores (5 in >>>> Alexanders initial mail) >>>> >>>> Only thing I think should be added to Alexanders proposal for (5) >>>> would be something like this : >>>> * BS modules are stored in /usr/lib/tgtd/backing-store/ >>>> * BS modules to load can also be specified on the tgtd command-line : >>>> tgtd ... --bs-modules=bs_rdwr.so >>> >>> >>> Could this be implicit? If the --bstype is not already loaded, go try and >>> load bs_foo.so? >>> >>> Regards -- Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
