From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm-all.c: Move init of irqchip_inject_ioctl out of kvm_irqchip_create()
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:42:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502A0183.4070303@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_9wmpEy-_x9nUufHA853hWJtDEy39hVe5h=CjzScsj6g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2012-08-14 09:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 August 2012 08:33, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>> Either you move both or none.
>
> OK.
>
>> KVM_IRQ_LINE is old-style, deprecated, KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS (i.e
>> injection with feedback to allow lost-tick compensation) is the current
>> standard that other archs should pick up.
>
> Can it be documented in the kernel api.txt then, please? Nobody
> is going to use it otherwise... (If I'd been paying attention at the
> time I'd have nak'd the qemu patches that added it on the grounds
> they were using an undocumented kernel API :-))
The kernel API's documentation has in fact a much younger history than
KVM support in QEMU. I think we still need to add quite a few standard
IOCTLs to make it complete. Patches always welcome.
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-14 7:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-06 17:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm-all.c: Move init of irqchip_inject_ioctl out of kvm_irqchip_create() Peter Maydell
2012-08-12 13:13 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-13 20:45 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-13 21:40 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-14 7:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 7:40 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-14 7:42 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-08-14 7:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-14 8:09 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 13:10 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-14 13:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 11:01 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 11:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 13:14 ` Avi Kivity
2012-08-14 13:36 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-08-14 7:36 ` Jan Kiszka
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