From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: marcandre.lureau@redhat.com,
Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's use of qemu_chr_open_eventfd() kosher?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:43:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56545B80.20905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737vv60sn.fsf_-_@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
On 24/11/2015 13:26, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Device models (a.k.a. frontends) are normally not supposed to create
> backends by themselves, because it blurs the separation between frontend
> and backend, and commonly denies the user the opportunity to fully
> configure the backend.
Right, but here the fd comes from the ivshmem server. It's just using
the chardev API internally. It could be changed with little effort to
use a GSource or qemu_set_fd_handler.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-24 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 17:56 [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's test for unix domain client socket valid? Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 14:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-24 12:26 ` [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's use of qemu_chr_open_eventfd() kosher? (was: Is ivshmem's test for unix domain client socket valid?) Markus Armbruster
2015-11-24 12:43 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-11-24 13:15 ` [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's use of qemu_chr_open_eventfd() kosher? Markus Armbruster
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