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


  • To: Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@xxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 16:46:52 +0100
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 08:46:12PM -0500, Nick Rosbrook wrote:
> 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.

The series looks good to me, beside a few detail.

Cheers,

-- 
Anthony PERARD



 


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