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

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13/06/12 13:00, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 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?
Yes. Actually, the address is already a device property.

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Anthony PERARD

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