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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:ABI/API" <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add virtio-input driver.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:51:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150323144803-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427118292.27137.39.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > > At least, this needs a comment explaining what the function does,
> > > and maybe wrap it in a helper like virtio_input_bitmap_copy or
> > > virtio_bitmap_or.
> > 
> > Can do that, sure.
> 
> Well, the function where this is in already cares about the bitmap copy
> only.  Can add a comment though.

OK, I think that will be enough for now.

> > > You are doing leXXX everywhere, that's VERSION_1 dependency.
> > > virtio_cread will do byteswaps differently without VERSION_1.
> > > Just don't go there.
> > 
> > Changed that for v2, for the config space structs.  They have normal u32
> > in there now.  virtio_cread() wants it this way.
> 
> I liked the __le32 in the config space structs more though, so I've
> waded through the virtio_config.h header file.
> 
> To me it looks like we need separate virtio_cread() versions for
> non-transitional drivers, which do __le32 -> u32 translation instead of
> __virtio32 -> u32 translation, so I can have __le32 types in the config
> space structs.
> 
> Or I could use vdev->config->get() directly instead of virtio_cread, but
> I'll loose sparse checking that way.
> 
> Hmm.  Recommendations?  Better ideas?
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd

So to clarify, you dislike using __virtio32 in virtio input header?

-- 
MST

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1426756391-26585-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <1426756391-26585-1-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19  9:13   ` [PATCH 1/1] Add virtio-input driver Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]     ` <1426756391-26585-2-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19 12:27       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-20 10:28         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-21 22:22           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23  7:53             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 11:52               ` [virtio-dev] " Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-23 13:44               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-23 13:51                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-03-23 14:27                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]                     ` <1427120855.27137.55.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-23 14:54                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-23 15:05                         ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]                           ` <1427123129.27137.62.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-23 16:17                             ` Cornelia Huck
2015-03-23 18:20                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-03-19 12:29     ` David Herrmann
     [not found]       ` <CANq1E4TDj4pq3J_BVc=Yuzo5dVR=QcNexVUqaqwjg7Qi5_xX4Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-19 16:27         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-03-19 17:16           ` David Herrmann
2015-03-20  9:54           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-03-20  9:48         ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]           ` <1426844885.32097.36.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20  9:55             ` David Herrmann
     [not found]               ` <CANq1E4QLPSK6NVeEx6yihYPdF-XPpXx4rKv0deHwX+s2RzFHCg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20 10:36                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]                   ` <1426847799.32097.66.camel-3OfP5uLMi4C46o+2HkPkLj4oCIwMql/M@public.gmane.org>
2015-03-20 10:43                     ` David Herrmann

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