Re: [RFC v2 0/7] add function support to IDL

[Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:48:02AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Nick Rosbrook writes ("[RFC v2 0/7] add function support to IDL"):
> > At a Xen Summit design session for the golang bindings (see [1]), we
> > agreed that it would be beneficial to expand the libxl IDL with function
> > support. In addition to benefiting libxl itself, this would allow other
> > language bindings to easily generate function wrappers.
> > 
> > The first version of this RFC is quite old [1]. I did address comments
> > on the original RFC, but also expanded the scope a bit. As a way to
> > evaluate function support, I worked on using this addition to the IDL to
> > generate device add/remove/destroy functions, and removing the
> > corresponding macros in libxl_internal.h. However, I stopped short of
> > actually completing a build with this in place, as I thought it made
> > sense to get feedback on the idea before working on the next step.
> 
> This is exciting!  I hope to find time to look at it, but I'm the
> release manager for Xen 4.15 and that's taking most of my time right
> now.

Of course, I understand. Thank you for expressing interest, I look
forward to hearing your thoughts when time permits.

Thanks,
NR