Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/7] sparc: rename hw/iommu.c

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:06:36PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 3/30/10, Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hw/iommu.c concerns the SPARC IOMMU. However we intend to implement the
> >  AMD IOMMU, which could lead to confusion unless we rename the former.
> 
> I was also thinking of renaming the file some time ago. The correct
> name would be "sun4m_iommu.c". Sun4c (while still Sparc based) had a
> different architecture (IIRC CPU MMU doubled as IOMMU) and Sun4d had
> several IO-UNITs instead. All Sun4m machines had an IOMMU.
> 
> But the qdev name of the device is still "iommu" and we can't change
> that. So I'm not so sure it's worth renaming. Can't AMD IOMMU reside
> in amd_iommu.c?

Keeping the plain name 'iommu' will likely cause confusion when more
iommu implementations are added. It is better to rename it so that the
name better describes what the file implements. So this change makes
sense for me.

	Joerg

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