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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add a new pvdrivers header to serve as the register of product numbers.


  • To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • From: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:44:46 +0100
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  • Cc: "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:45:03 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add a new pvdrivers header to serve as the register of product numbers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 September 2012 08:21
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add a new pvdrivers header to serve
> as the register of product numbers.
> 
> >>> On 26.09.12 at 15:16, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxx]
> >> >>> On 26.09.12 at 14:23, Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > + * a product number without allocating one.
> >> > + * If you maintain a separate versioning and distribution path
> >> > + * for PV drivers you should have a separate product number so
> >> > + * that your drivers can be separated from others.
> >> > + *
> >> > + * During development, you may use the product ID to
> >> > + * indicate a driver which is yet to be released.
> >>
> >> Which "the product ID"?
> >>
> >
> > The ones post-fixed '_ID'.
> 
> I would have thought it's meant to be specifically
> PVDRIVERS_EXPERIMENTAL_ID, and hence expected that to be spelled out.
> 

Sorry, I misread what you'd said. Fixed in the 2nd version anyway.

  Paul


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