From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] virtio_balloon: transitional interface Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:49:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20150401124539-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1427884468-23930-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1427884468-23930-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1427884468-23930-2-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, Pawel Moll , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:35:45PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Virtio 1.0 doesn't include a modern balloon device. > But it's not a big change to support a transitional > balloon device: this has the advantage of supporting > existing drivers, transparently. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > --- > include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h | 11 ++++++++-- > drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) So all in all 32 LOC added, and 9 out of these deal with endian-ness differences. Seems like a small cost for guests to pay for a clean spec, no? -- MST