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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] iohandlers: Mark current implementation as	'old'
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:47:19 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110222111718.GD10446@amit-x200.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D63996E.9070701@redhat.com>

On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [13:09:34], Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 12:18 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >Mark the current iohandler list as 'old'.  In the next commit we'll
> >introduce a new iohandler api that will replace the list name.
> >
> >The 'old' list will eventually be completely replaced by the new
> >implementation.
> 
> A better way to do this is to implement the old API in terms of the
> new API.  This ensures you don't lose any functionality, and reduces
> the amount of low-level infrastructure.

With this new approach of switching to just one callback, that is more
work for little gain as we'll just deprecate the older API soon.  (The
previous patches used this approach, btw.)

Would you still prefer to have an old->new mapping?

		Amit

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 11:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 10:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] New iohandler API Amit Shah
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] iohandlers: Mark current implementation as 'old' Amit Shah
2011-02-22 11:09   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 11:17     ` Amit Shah [this message]
2011-02-22 13:28       ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 14:37         ` Amit Shah
2011-02-22 14:43           ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] iohandlers: Introduce a new API Amit Shah
2011-02-22 12:39   ` Alon Levy
2011-02-22 13:09     ` Amit Shah
2011-02-22 13:28   ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 14:39     ` Amit Shah
2011-02-22 15:00     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-22 16:21       ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 18:21         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-02-23 12:40           ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 14:49   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] char: tcp: Use new iohandler api Amit Shah
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] char: udp: " Amit Shah
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] char: fd: " Amit Shah
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] char: stdio: " Amit Shah
2011-02-22 10:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] char: pty: " Amit Shah

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