Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH V12 5/9] Revert "pci: don't export an internal function"

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2012-06-13 13:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 01:15:23PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2012-06-12 17:15, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 04:05:19PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
>>>> This reverts commit 94a09e2c846374a96719cda2b4e1312d8c4b08a7.
>>>>
>>>> This function is used by a later patch to parse the BDF of the device to
>>>> passthrough.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> You probably want to parse the host address?  You don't want to copy the
>>> bugs in pci_parse_devaddr - write your own that has sane semantics
>>> for host. E.g. you need to support ARI etc.
>>
>> We should really consolidate over one parser for Xen, KVM device
>> assignment and VFIO. It looks like they all have very similar requirements.
> 
> Also rename pci_parse_devaddr to pci_parse_legacy_devaddr
> to stress it's not something others should reuse.

That depends on what pci_parse_devaddr will do in the end. If it will
become as general as my qemu_parse_pci_devaddr, "legacy" would be
inappropriate.

Jan

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