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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: future plans for libxl?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:24:23 +0100
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On 15/04/10 14:53, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Perhaps rather than expecting the libxl caller to include
> xen/include/public/version.h, it would be better to have a single
> libxc call that fills in a single structure by making all the relevant
> calls and copying the data out.
>
> Vincent, Stefano, what do you think ?
>    
That's fine if it happens, but it's not like it's performance critical 
or will ever be.
not adding a new version hypercall and doing it in a series of 
hypercalls, means
that the code stays compatible with old hypervisor.

-- 
Vincent