Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: memory API changes

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/03/2015 16:26, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > True.  But since it's not a new API we can keep the old name for the
> > simple one.
>
> ...except that means that the function you should in
> general not be using as default is the one with the short
> name, which is the wrong way round. We should be guiding
> people writing new code to think about the required
> behaviour on memory transaction failure (and attributes)
> as they write the code, not making it easy for them to
> ignore the issue...

Not necessarily, for example PCI devices can certainly use the short name.

Paolo