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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: pointers in public headers
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:15:59 +0100
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>>> Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk> 25.08.06 09:41 >>>
>On 25/8/06 8:05 am, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there any reason to retain some instances of uses of pointers in the
>> public headers? I would have expected that only guest handles should
>> be used there.
>
>There might be some pointers in io/ring.h but that ought to be all, I think.

While there are none there, even for those it would seem ill; but there
pointers in
- struct mmuext_op (xen.h)
- struct vcpu_register_runstate_memory_area (vcpu.h)
- struct xsd_errors (io/xs_wire.h)
- struct ioreq (hvm/ioreq.h)

Jan