From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename KVM_UPSTREAM to OBSOLETE_KVM_IMPL
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:29:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C8F4066.3020505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8E7577.3020708@web.de>
On 09/13/2010 09:03 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Am 13.09.2010 20:56, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 09/13/2010 01:52 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Am 13.09.2010 19:54, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>>> The symbol KVM_UPSTREAM is used to mark sections of code that are
>>>> part of
>>>> the upstream kvm implemetation that is not used in qemu-kvm. However
>>>> the
>>>> name becomes ambiguous if qemu-kvm is merged upstream.
>>>>
>>> I doubt this is describing all cases correctly as well. Some changes
>>> should rather happen the other way around (e.g. you surely don't want to
>>> obsolete x86 kvm_arch_put/get_registers in favor of
>>> kvm_arch_load/save_regs, do you?).
>>>
>> There's really no perfect name to describe what we're actually doing
>> here. It's probably not a detail worth worrying that much about.
> I don't mind the name as long as it doesn't reflect the strategy (but
> why this change at all then?).
It would be silly to have a define KVM_UPSTREAM in upstream.
> Jan (who would prefer to have the time for doing the cleanups)
>
Hopefully, with a single source base doing the cleanups would be easier,
so a more efficient use of the time we have.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-14 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-13 17:54 [PATCH] Rename KVM_UPSTREAM to OBSOLETE_KVM_IMPL Avi Kivity
2010-09-13 18:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-09-13 18:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-09-13 19:03 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-09-14 9:29 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-09-14 10:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2010-09-14 10:50 ` Avi Kivity
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