Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv4 07/12] virtio: move typedef to qemu-common

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:59:11PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Thu) Mar 04 2010 [14:19:58], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 05:50:19PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> > > On (Wed) Mar 03 2010 [19:16:28], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > make it possible to use type without header include
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > So that vhost.h does not need to include virtio.h
> 
> But what's the benefit in doing that?

Simpler dependencies. E.g. tap calls vhost
init/cleanup but we do not want it to include virtio.h
An alternative would be to split init/cleanup
(does not need virtio), and start/stop (needs virtio).
But typedef in qemu-common is already used
for everything else.

> Either way, a better commit msg would help.

ok

> 		Amit