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Message-Id: <1171432280.19842.113.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:51:20 +1100
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
virtualization@...ts.osdl.org, xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com,
Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 10/21] Xen-paravirt: Name: dont export paravirt_ops
structure, do individual functions
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:06 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Wrap the paravirt_ops members we want to export in wrapper functions.
> > Since we binary-patch the critical ones, this doesn't make a speed
> > impact.
>
> This turned out really hideous looking to me. Can't we split the struct
> into GPL'd and non-GPL'd functions instead? We still have the same
> granularity, and none of this function call to an indirect function call
> nonsense.
This patch, indeed, should not have been pushed in this series. But not
for that reason: I actually prefer explicit exports.
KVM and lguest need more symbols, so the real patch will make them use
native_XXX versions explicitly...
Cheers,
Rusty.
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