From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZyoY-0000ch-Ae for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:06:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZyoS-0006J3-6O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:06:14 -0400 Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:21707) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XZyoS-0006Iv-1v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 03 Oct 2014 05:06:08 -0400 Message-ID: <1412327164.423.15.camel@citrix.com> From: Ian Campbell Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 10:06:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6624BC057AF4E240B6D036F5CC505B12041F5382@AMSPEX01CL02.citrite.net> References: <1411376699-8175-1-git-send-email-owen.smith@citrix.com> <1411376699-8175-3-git-send-email-owen.smith@citrix.com> <541FF6F8.3030906@citrix.com> <6624BC057AF4E240B6D036F5CC505B12041F5382@AMSPEX01CL02.citrite.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH 2/2] xenfb: Add comment documentation List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Owen Smith Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Stefano Stabellini , David Vrabel , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 11:20 +0100, Owen Smith wrote: > > > + * page-gref > > > + * Values: > > > + * Only required if "page-ref" is NOT set. > > > + * > > > + * A grant reference to the memory page to be mapped for the shared > > ring > > > + * structures. Must be present if "page-ref" is not present. > > > > Should there be some negotiation for which of page-ref or page-gref is > > required/preferred by the backend? > > > > The same applies to kbdif as well. > > > > I've not added negotiation, as I wanted minimum changes when "page-ref" is specified. > With the kbdif device only, not investigated the vfb, a backend only supporting "page-gref" > will break a lot of frontends (I saw breaks in Ubuntu, which advertises both if I forced page-gref) Is this patch/series documenting existing behaviour or the new behaviour which you are currently implementing? Both patches have the same title and essentially the same commit message (list of fields), so I can't tell.