Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Type-safe ioport callbacks

[Markus Armbruster]

Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:

> A recent qemu -> qemu-kvm merge broke cpu hotplug without the compiler
> complaining because of the type-unsafeness of the ioport callbacks.  This
> patchset adds a type-safe variant of ioport callbacks and coverts a sample
> ioport.  Converting the other 300-odd registrations is left as an excercise
> to the community.
>
> Avi Kivity (2):
>   Type-safe ioport callbacks
>   piix4 acpi: convert io BAR to type-safe ioport callbacks
>
>  hw/acpi_piix4.c |   30 +++++++++++++++----------
>  ioport.c        |   64 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  ioport.h        |   16 +++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Related: proper error handling
http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg43710.html

I think that could be built nicely on top of this.