On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 01:41:35PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > Since now each device has its own fd is it an advantage to enforce > common interface between different devices? If we do so though why > not handle file creation, ioctl and file descriptor lifetime in the > common code. Common code will have "struct kvm_device" with "struct > kvm_device_arch" and "struct kvm_device_ops" members. Instead of > kvm_mpic_ioctl there will be kvm_device_ioctl which will despatch ioctls > to a device using kvm_device->ops->(set|get|has)_attr pointers.
I thought about making the same request, but when I looked at it, the amount of code that could be made common in this way is pretty tiny, and doing that involves a bit of extra complexity, so I thought that on the whole it wouldn't be worthwhile. Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
