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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 1/1 Better expose xenstore limits
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:23:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C61E83C5.9D20%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241029092.5394.178.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On 29/04/2009 19:18, "Tim Post" <echo@echoreply.us> wrote:

> Someone using xs.h is going to be entirely unaware of said limits.
> Xenstore internals will relay an appropriate errno if the limits are
> exceeded, but I think many people will not know such limits exist.
> 
> Xenwire is used when developing drivers.. not user space applications.
> 
> Why not assert the limits in both at the cost of bothering the
> preprocessor three times?

Defining the same thing again but with a different name just for purposes of
documentation is pretty barking. I suppose it is perhaps worth a
documentation comment in xs.h, but no more than that.

 -- Keir

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-29 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-29 16:43 [PATCH] 1/1 Better expose xenstore limits Tim Post
2009-04-29 18:01 ` Keir Fraser
2009-04-29 18:18   ` Tim Post
2009-04-29 21:23     ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2009-04-30  8:54       ` Tim Post
2009-04-30  9:35         ` Keir Fraser
2009-04-30 10:02           ` Tim Post

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