Re: [PATCH] kvm-all.c: Move init of irqchip_inject_ioctl out of kvm_irqchip_create()

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On 2012-08-14 09:40, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 August 2012 08:33, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Either you move both or none.
> 
> OK.
> 
>> KVM_IRQ_LINE is old-style, deprecated, KVM_IRQ_LINE_STATUS (i.e
>> injection with feedback to allow lost-tick compensation) is the current
>> standard that other archs should pick up.
> 
> Can it be documented in the kernel api.txt then, please? Nobody
> is going to use it otherwise... (If I'd been paying attention at the
> time I'd have nak'd the qemu patches that added it on the grounds
> they were using an undocumented kernel API :-))

The kernel API's documentation has in fact a much younger history than
KVM support in QEMU. I think we still need to add quite a few standard
IOCTLs to make it complete. Patches always welcome.

Jan


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