From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51271) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZMo9-0001Ef-B1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 10:54:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZMo7-0006K6-DV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 10:54:29 -0400 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:30546) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UZMo7-0006Jv-15 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2013 10:54:27 -0400 Message-ID: <5187C41C.4050109@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 06 May 2013 16:54:20 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5187C342.2050802@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <5187C342.2050802@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH 00/15] Refactor portio dispatching List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Liu Ping Fan , malc , qemu-devel , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Herv=E9_Poussineau?= On 2013-05-06 16:50, Andreas F=E4rber wrote: > Am 06.05.2013 16:26, schrieb Jan Kiszka: >> This series converts the remaining users of register_ioport* to portio >> lists, >=20 > Why does it need to be lists? Is there anything wrong with using > isa_register_ioport() as done in Herv=E9's previous ioport cleanup seri= es? > (Hope you were aware of those ppc-centered discussions?) Lists are the straight way of conversion, specifically for I/O port assignments that are scattered. On some lazy day, someone can convert them into multiple memory regions. That's beyond the scope if this series and more risky. Jan --=20 Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux