On 09.01.2013, at 16:22, Marc Zyngier wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:11:39 +0000, Peter Maydell > <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 9 January 2013 14:58, Alexander Graf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, that was the basic idea. Considering that the patch set hasn't >>> been going >>> in for another 2 months after that discussion indicates that this isn't >>> too much of >>> an issue though :). >> >> We might get there faster if people didn't keep nitpicking the APIs at > the >> last minute :-) > > Exactly. We're trying hard to get the damned thing merged, and the > permanent API churn quickly becomes a burden.
As I said earlier, we have had a lot of experience in creating really bad APIs in the past. But how about making this one specific? Call it KVM_ARM_SET_VGIC_ADDRESS, keep the rest as it is, resend it, and later we can come up with an actually generic interface. Alex > > My understanding was that a consensus was reached 2 months ago. Has > something fundamentally changed? Something that makes this API invalid? If > not, can we please keep this one? > > Thanks, > > M. > -- > Who you jivin' with that Cosmik Debris? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
