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

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Rosbrook writes ("[RFC v2 0/7] add function support to IDL"):
> 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.

This is exciting!  I hope to find time to look at it, but I'm the
release manager for Xen 4.15 and that's taking most of my time right
now.

Regards,
Ian.