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From: Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	Eduardo Habkost <eduardo@habkost.net>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@citrix.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] hw/xen: update Xen PV NIC to XenDevice model
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:16:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e174934-afca-440b-9edc-a5225d2510ea@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72ea536333fc9942f3c39acee571fc8f5ad98ba6.camel@infradead.org>

On 24/10/2023 16:17, David Woodhouse wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> I don't think that's really a valid state for a network frontend. Linux
>> netback just ignores it.
> 
> Must we? I was thinking of making the ->frontend_changed() methods
> optional and allowing backends to just provide ->connect() and
> ->disconnect() methods instead if they wanted to. Because we have three
> identical ->frontend_changed() methods now...
> 

Now maybe... Not sure things will look so common when other backends are 
converted. I'd prefer to maintain fidelity with Linux xen-netback as it 
is generally considered to be the canonical implementation.

   Paul



  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-24 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-17 18:25 [PATCH 0/4] Update QEMU qnic driver to "new" XenDevice model David Woodhouse
2023-10-17 18:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] hw/xen: only remove peers of PCI NICs on unplug David Woodhouse
2023-10-24 14:32   ` Paul Durrant
2023-10-24 15:22     ` David Woodhouse
2023-10-17 18:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] hw/xen: update Xen PV NIC to XenDevice model David Woodhouse
2023-10-24 14:47   ` Paul Durrant
2023-10-24 15:17     ` David Woodhouse
2023-10-24 16:16       ` Paul Durrant [this message]
2023-10-25  7:49     ` David Woodhouse
2023-10-17 18:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] [WTF] avoid qemu_del_nic() in xen_netdev_unrealize() on shutdown David Woodhouse
2023-10-17 18:56   ` David Woodhouse
2023-10-17 18:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] hw/i386/pc: support '-nic' for xen-net-device David Woodhouse

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