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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Gerd Hoffman <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On 03/11/2010 04:54 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I take it your not opposed to converting QEMUBH to be a QEMUNotifier?
>>> If so, I'm happy to do it.
>> It's unclear to me why you've invented a new thing in the first place.
>
> This style of callback has a number of advantages:
>
>  - It provides better type safety since
>  - It's a more compact representation
>  - It maps to a function object (functor) which is a pretty common 
> pattern in most high level languages

- The name isn't an eyesore

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