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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v1 1/5] QEMUSizedBuffer/QEMUFile
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To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.iiith@gmail.com>

* Eric Blake (eblake@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 07/07/2014 11:18 AM, Sanidhya Kashyap wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> You are attributing the patch to David...
> 
> > 
> > Using the patch of Stefan Berger for memory buffer based QEMUFile.
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-03/msg05036.html
> > 
> > In the words of David:
> > 
> > """
> > Using the QEMUFile interface, this patch adds support functions for
> > operating on in-memory sized buffers that can be written to or read from.
> > """
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> 
> ...but lack his S-o-b.  Is it something that Stefan and Joel wrote (in
> which case, one of them should be listed as author), or something that
> David adopted and further improvedd (in which case he needs a signature)?

I adopted it and just updated it; nothing substantial.

(I use it in both my BER world and my postcopy world; and both Stefan
and Isaku wrote something similar, so it's about time this finds it's
way into the code base one way or another before someone else writes
a 3rd implementation).

Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK