Re: [fuse-devel] Making "-o modules=" a configure option

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Jörg Faschingbauer wrote:
> I have a patch that adds the "--disable-modules" configure option, for
> the purpose of disabling the dynamic FS module loading. The patch is
> brutal as it clutters fuse.c with ifdefs, and I will clean it up somehow
> if you consider it worth adding. (Maybe by pulling out the module code
> into a separate file.)
> 
> Background is I am trying to add FUSE to Busybox with as little pain as
> possible. Nobody ever seems to have tried to add -ldl there, and making
> it configurable seems to make sense to me anyway.
> 
> Patch appended. Please review (don't apply).

I don't think we want to disable modules completely (there are some
built-in modules), just the dynamic loading of modules.

And that can be done with a single ifdef around fuse_load_so_name()
and fuse_load_so_module().

Thanks,
Miklos