Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] virtio: cleanup vhost-user-generic and reduce c&p

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2023 at 07:15:09PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> A lot of our vhost-user stubs are large chunks of boilerplate that do
> (mostly) the same thing. This series continues the cleanups by
> splitting the vhost-user-base and vhost-user-generic implementations.
> After adding a new vq_size property the rng, gpio and i2c vhost-user
> devices become simple specialisations of the common base defining the
> ID, number of queues and potentially the config handling.
> 
> I've also added Manos' vhost-user-sound while I was at it.

Dropped due to CI failures. Pls make sure this passes gitlab CI.
Also pls ping me after release to help make sure it does not get lost.
Thanks!

> Changes
> -------
> 
> v6
>   - re-base to current master
>   - make vhost-user-device abstract
>   - mention abstractness in docs
> 
> v5
>   - addressing comments and tags
>   - improved the docs
> 
> v4
>   - dropped the F_TRANSPORT work for another series
>   - added vhost-user-sound
> 
> Alex Bennée (5):
>   virtio: split into vhost-user-base and vhost-user-device
>   hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-rng from vhost-user-base
>   hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-gpio from vhost-user-base
>   hw/virtio: derive vhost-user-i2c from vhost-user-base
>   docs/system: add a basic enumeration of vhost-user devices
> 
> Manos Pitsidianakis (1):
>   hw/virtio: add vhost-user-snd and virtio-snd-pci devices
> 
>  docs/system/devices/vhost-user-rng.rst        |   2 +
>  docs/system/devices/vhost-user.rst            |  65 ++-
>  ...{vhost-user-device.h => vhost-user-base.h} |  21 +-
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.h           |  23 +-
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-i2c.h            |  14 +-
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.h            |  11 +-
>  include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd.h            |  26 ++
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-base.c                   | 345 +++++++++++++++
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-device-pci.c             |  10 +-
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-device.c                 | 337 +--------------
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-gpio.c                   | 406 +-----------------
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-i2c.c                    | 272 +-----------
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-rng.c                    | 278 +-----------
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd-pci.c                |  75 ++++
>  hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd.c                    |  67 +++
>  hw/virtio/Kconfig                             |   5 +
>  hw/virtio/meson.build                         |  23 +-
>  17 files changed, 690 insertions(+), 1290 deletions(-)
>  rename include/hw/virtio/{vhost-user-device.h => vhost-user-base.h} (71%)
>  create mode 100644 include/hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd.h
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-base.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd-pci.c
>  create mode 100644 hw/virtio/vhost-user-snd.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2