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 20:07:26 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110222143726.GA4939@amit-x200.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D63BA1B.60709@redhat.com>
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [15:28:59], Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 01:17 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >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.)
>
> Does "deprecate" mean "completely remove"?
>
> If so I agree.
Yes, completely removing the older API is the plan (as noted in
message 00).
Amit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-22 14:37 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
2011-02-22 13:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-02-22 14:37 ` Amit Shah [this message]
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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