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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv8 13/30] aio / timers: Add
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To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>, rth@twiddle.net

Il 09/08/2013 16:57, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
> 
> On 9 Aug 2013, at 15:51, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
>>> One nit:
>>>
>>> Currently struct QEMUTimer lives nicely within qemu_timer.c, hidden
>>> from the .h, which only contains:
>>>  typedef struct QEMUTimer QEMUTimer;
>>>
>>> If what you are after is for people to put a QEMUTimer into their
>>> struct, rather than a QEMUTimer * (and hopefully to remember to
>>> put qemu_timer_init in!) then I need to move the whole of the
>>> declaration of the struct to the .h file which is a bit yucky.
>>
>> Yeah, that's fine.  We're not relying too much on opaque types anyway.
> 
> Out of interest, there was some talk about modular block drivers
> (i.e. loading them at run time). If we do that, we'll need a stable
> API, and this would be a move in the wrong direction.

That's not a problem, there is absolutely no interest in out-of-tree
drivers and in having a stable ABI.

Paolo