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, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, 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.
>>
>> For those how didn't follow the discussion, see patches 10-13 in
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/153728.
> 
> I agree, actually it looks like patch 10 and 11 would be enough.
> 
> Maybe you could extract them and send them out separately?

They are still under discussion and waiting for some QOM refactorings to
be merged.

Will you be able to use an address parser via some device property?

Jan

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