From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: Guidelines for new PV protocol submission Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:28:49 +0000 Message-ID: <1421771329.10440.323.camel@citrix.com> References: <54BE4E6A.8010102@citrix.com> <54BE562B.40601@citrix.com> <54BE5AAF.6020709@citrix.com> <54BE6ACA020000780005711A@mail.emea.novell.com> <21694.25702.136393.563980@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta3.messagelabs.com ([195.245.230.39]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YDc7J-0002sa-DO for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:57:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: <21694.25702.136393.563980@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson Cc: Stefano Stabellini , Andrew Cooper , oleksandr.dmytryshyn@globallogic.com, David Vrabel , Jan Beulich , xen-devel , roger.pau@citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 14:21 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > I am 100% in agreement with Roger's proposal. I think we should > extend this principle to as much of the guest ABI as possible, not > just PV protocols - it would be good to do it for guest-visible > hypervisor and tools ABIs too. Agreed, but lets start with something simple and achievable, like xen/include/public/io/*.h. I don't think we should invent one up, but if there is an existing, well know and decent IDL which suits our needs we should consider using it. Ian.