Preventing dup backend names with dynamic backends in VMODs

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CABoVN9AVhev3pb_90hRgckdTdnhu0C83cHDesVfBw6abC5gxmg at mail.gmail.com>
> , Dridi Boukelmoune writes:
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>>> The real fix would be to allow standardized (ie: builtin) methods on the
>>> VCL_* types themselves, so that one could do things like
>>>
>>>         $backend.ip()
>>>         $backend.name()
>>>
>>> Implementing it will take some VCC hacking
>>
>>If needed I can take this one once I get enough bandwidth and more
>>precise requirements, I'm getting used to dealing with VCC and
>>backends :)
>
> Please hold off until we have a design for the entire
> VMOD_PRIV/VMOD_OBJ/Backend thing.  I want a clean future-proof solution
> rather than more hacks.

Don't worry, I want to prepare my VCL temperature fixes first as we
discussed in Stockholm. I will remove the ABI breakage from when I
submitted it before 4.1, hopefully in time for the next VDD.

And I have a probably controversial solution I'd like to propose too :)

Dridi