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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:30:51 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 21.10.2009, at 20:06, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> So you would prefer a special #ifdef for s390 in generic code over a 
>>> specifically for this purpose exported function?
>>>
>>> Well, you're the boss. I like the special function better, but 
>>> whatever you say.
>>
>> How is someone supposed to figure out what _qemu_ram_alloc is for?  
>> Nothing in your patch really indicates that.
>>
>> However, an ugly #ifdef immediately tells someone, oh, s390 kvm needs 
>> this terrible hack, so let's keep bugging those guys to eliminate the 
>> need for that.
>
> Alright :-). Any other complaints? If not I'd spin up v3.

Nope.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
>