optional_api: Remove unused nonoptreq fields

As they're not actively used, they only grow stale. The moduleinfo field itself
is kept in Asterisk 13/15 for ABI compatibility.

ASTERISK-28046 #close

Change-Id: I8df66a7007f807840414bb348511a8c14c05a9fc
This commit is contained in:
Walter Doekes
2018-09-11 14:22:18 +02:00
parent c1a2c84361
commit 78453e65fd
4 changed files with 15 additions and 30 deletions

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@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@
* the validator's function pointer. * the validator's function pointer.
* *
* The reason for this seamingly useless indirection is the way function * The reason for this seamingly useless indirection is the way function
* pointers interfere with module loading. Asterisk attempts to dlopen() each * pointers used to interfere with module loading. Previously, Asterisk
* module using \c RTLD_LAZY in order to read some metadata from the module. * attempted to dlopen() each module using \c RTLD_LAZY in order to read some
* Unfortunately, if you take the address of a function, the function has to be * metadata from the module. Using functions to get the function pointer
* resolvable at load time, even if \c RTLD_LAZY is specified. By moving the * allowed us to be lazy.
* function-address-taking into this module, we can once again be lazy.
*/ */
/* /*

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@@ -100,23 +100,10 @@ struct stasis_message_sink *stasis_message_sink_create(void)
* \brief Implementation of the stasis_message_sink_cb() callback. * \brief Implementation of the stasis_message_sink_cb() callback.
* *
* Why the roundabout way of exposing this via stasis_message_sink_cb()? Well, * Why the roundabout way of exposing this via stasis_message_sink_cb()? Well,
* it has to do with how we load modules. * it has to do with how we previously loaded modules, using \c RTLD_LAZY.
* *
* Modules have their own metadata compiled into them in the module info block * The stasis_message_sink_cb() function gave us a layer of indirection so that
* at the end of the file. This includes dependency information in the * the initial lazy binding would still work as expected.
* \c nonoptreq field.
*
* Asterisk loads the module, inspects the field, then loads any needed
* dependencies. This works because Asterisk passes \c RTLD_LAZY to the initial
* dlopen(), which defers binding function references until they are called.
*
* But when you take the address of a function, that function needs to be
* available at load time. So if some module used the address of
* message_sink_cb() directly, and \c res_stasis_test.so wasn't loaded yet, then
* that module would fail to load.
*
* The stasis_message_sink_cb() function gives us a layer of indirection so that
* the initial lazy binding will still work as expected.
*/ */
static void message_sink_cb(void *data, struct stasis_subscription *sub, static void message_sink_cb(void *data, struct stasis_subscription *sub,
struct stasis_message *message) struct stasis_message *message)

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@@ -23,11 +23,10 @@
* the validator's function pointer. * the validator's function pointer.
* *
* The reason for this seamingly useless indirection is the way function * The reason for this seamingly useless indirection is the way function
* pointers interfere with module loading. Asterisk attempts to dlopen() each * pointers used to interfere with module loading. Previously, Asterisk
* module using \c RTLD_LAZY in order to read some metadata from the module. * attempted to dlopen() each module using \c RTLD_LAZY in order to read some
* Unfortunately, if you take the address of a function, the function has to be * metadata from the module. Using functions to get the function pointer
* resolvable at load time, even if \c RTLD_LAZY is specified. By moving the * allowed us to be lazy.
* function-address-taking into this module, we can once again be lazy.
*/ */
/* /*

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@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
/*! /*!
* Wrapper of ast_test_validate_int() so an external function pointer is not used. * Wrapper of ast_test_validate_int() so an external function pointer is not used.
* *
* \note Must do this because using an external function pointer * \note We do this because using an external function pointer
* does not play nicely when loading with RTLD_LAZY. * did not play nicely when we loaded with RTLD_LAZY.
*/ */
static int wrap_ast_ari_validate_int(struct ast_json *json) static int wrap_ast_ari_validate_int(struct ast_json *json)
{ {
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ static int wrap_ast_ari_validate_int(struct ast_json *json)
/*! /*!
* Wrapper of ast_ari_validate_string() so an external function pointer is not used. * Wrapper of ast_ari_validate_string() so an external function pointer is not used.
* *
* \note Must do this because using an external function pointer * \note We do this because using an external function pointer
* does not play nicely when loading with RTLD_LAZY. * did not play nicely when we loaded with RTLD_LAZY.
*/ */
static int wrap_ast_ari_validate_string(struct ast_json *json) static int wrap_ast_ari_validate_string(struct ast_json *json)
{ {