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Re: [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's use of qemu_chr_open_eventfd() kosher?


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is ivshmem's use of qemu_chr_open_eventfd() kosher?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:15:55 +0100
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> On 24/11/2015 13:26, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Device models (a.k.a. frontends) are normally not supposed to create
>> backends by themselves, because it blurs the separation between frontend
>> and backend, and commonly denies the user the opportunity to fully
>> configure the backend.
>
> Right, but here the fd comes from the ivshmem server.  It's just using
> the chardev API internally.  It could be changed with little effort to
> use a GSource or qemu_set_fd_handler.

Thanks!



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