Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add compat eventfd header

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

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 28.06.2011, at 17:35, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > Support build on RHEL 5.X where we have syscall for eventfd but not
> > userspace wrapper.
> > 
> > (cherry-picked from commit 9e3269181e9bc56feb43bcd4e8ce0b82cd543e65
> > in qemu-kvm.git).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > compat/sys/eventfd.h |   13 +++++++++++++
> > configure            |    4 +++
> > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 compat/sys/eventfd.h
> > 
> > diff --git a/compat/sys/eventfd.h b/compat/sys/eventfd.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..f55d96a
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/compat/sys/eventfd.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
> > +#ifndef _COMPAT_SYS_EVENTFD
> > +#define _COMPAT_SYS_EVENTFD
> > +
> > +#include <unistd.h>
> > +#include <syscall.h>
> > +
> > +
> > +static inline int eventfd (int count, int flags)
> 
> coding style seems wrong.

What exactly? Two empty lines?

> However, I'm not sure I like the idea of adding this code in qemu. Wouldn't the RHEL5 libc be a better place for such a wrapper?
> 
> 
> Alex

My guess (I don't speak for red hat here) is that's unlikely to be
patched anytime soon.  It helps me when I need to use such a box,
and the cost seems negligeable. What's the drawback?

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MST