Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH uq/master] kvm: Clean up irqfd API

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-09-09 16:01, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/20/2012 11:55 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> No need to expose the fd-based interface, everyone will already be fine
>> with the more handy EventNotifier variant. Rename the latter to clarify
>> that we are still talking about irqfds here.
> 
> Thanks, applied.
> 
>>  
>> -int kvm_irqchip_add_irqfd(KVMState *s, int fd, int virq);
>> -int kvm_irqchip_remove_irqfd(KVMState *s, int fd, int virq);
>> -int kvm_irqchip_add_irq_notifier(KVMState *s, EventNotifier *n, int virq);
>> -int kvm_irqchip_remove_irq_notifier(KVMState *s, EventNotifier *n, int virq);
>> +int kvm_irqchip_add_irqfd_notifier(KVMState *s, EventNotifier *n, int virq);
>> +int kvm_irqchip_remove_irqfd_notifier(KVMState *s, EventNotifier *n, int virq);
>>  #endif
> 
> Those names aren't particularly satisfying.  add_irqfd_notifier implies
> you want to be notified about irqfd events, but that's not what the
> function does.  Not sure what a good name would be.

Now that there are no more variants, we could also drop the "notifier"
from the name again. Better?

Jan

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