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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] virtio_balloon: transitional interface
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 19:53:14 +1030
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"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 02:17:23PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> I would leave the device *exactly* as is, ugly structure packing and
>> all.
>
> But why?  It's going to be used for years, might as well make it clean?

Because the only spec which currently exists says to do that.  We do
need a new virtio memballoon spec, but it'll look nothing like this
anyway.

Cheers,
Rusty.