On 7/9/19 4:36 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 11:02:03AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 22:37:02 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
>>> As shown in recent patches, several drivers provided only an older
>>> counterpart of an API, making it harder to uniformly u
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 11:02:03AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 22:37:02 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > As shown in recent patches, several drivers provided only an older
> > counterpart of an API, making it harder to uniformly use the newer
> > preferred API form. We can prev
On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 22:37:02 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> As shown in recent patches, several drivers provided only an older
> counterpart of an API, making it harder to uniformly use the newer
> preferred API form. We can prevent future instances of this by failing
> the driver at initialization
As shown in recent patches, several drivers provided only an older
counterpart of an API, making it harder to uniformly use the newer
preferred API form. We can prevent future instances of this by failing
the driver at initialization time if a modern API is forgotten when an
older API is present.