From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for 4.5] xen/arm: Add support for GICv3 for domU Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:10:51 -0500 Message-ID: <20141111171051.GB15019@laptop.dumpdata.com> References: <545A5B4F02000078000C1073@mail.emea.novell.com> <545B4325.9000801@linaro.org> <545B577D0200007800045407@mail.emea.novell.com> <545B4D1D.4090000@linaro.org> <20141107154502.GC14076@laptop.dumpdata.com> <545E5A66.2000609@linaro.org> <7EFC68C5-25FF-47E8-83B3-0600246D8937@oracle.com> <1415613783.27002.2.camel@citrix.com> <54623C4E.2000209@linaro.org> 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 1XoEzA-00014C-TV for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:12:09 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54623C4E.2000209@linaro.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Julien Grall Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, Ian Campbell , vijay.kilari@gmail.com, Stefano Stabellini , tim@xen.org, Vijaya.Kumar@caviumnetworks.com, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, stefano.stabellini@citrix.com, Jan Beulich , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 05:41:50PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote: > Hi Stefano, > > On 10/11/2014 12:38, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >On Mon, 10 Nov 2014, Ian Campbell wrote: > >>On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 15:26 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > >>>That is to guard against somebody building against libxc or libxl and > >>>then becoming dependent on this and then complaining that it is not in > >>>Xen 4.6. > >> > >>libxc does not have a stable API and libxl doesn't expose this interface > >>at all. At the hypercall level this is a domctl which simliarly has no > >>stable interface. > >> > >>So I don't think there is any need to wrap anything or guard against > >>anything. > > > >That's true. A comment in the header file wouldn't hurt though. > > It looks like that Ian has already pushed the patch. Do I need to send a > follow-up? Nah, I just need to put it the Xen 4.6 todo list with your name on it :-) .. Done. > > Regards, > > -- > Julien Grall