Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] block/backup: Add subclassed notifier

[John Snow]

On 01/18/2016 09:29 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 12.01.2016 um 19:02 hat John Snow geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> On 01/12/2016 01:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/01/2016 18:57, John Snow wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> On 01/12/2016 03:46 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/01/2016 01:36, John Snow wrote:
>>>>>> Instead of relying on peeking at bs->job, we want to explicitly get
>>>>>> a reference to the job that was involved in this notifier callback.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Extend the Notifier to include a job pointer, and include a reference
>>>>>> to the job registering the callback. This cuts out a few more cases
>>>>>> where we have to rely on bs->job.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <address@hidden>
>>>>>
>>>>> Why don't you just put the NotifierWithReturn inside the BackupBlockJob
>>>>> struct, and use container_of to get from NWR to BackupBlockJob?
>>>>>
>>>>> Paolo
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That's another way (including the notifier within the job vs. including
>>>> the job within the notifier.) This one simply occurred to me first. Any
>>>> strong benefit to that method, or just a matter of style?
>>>
>>> It's usually the one that is used with notifiers, no other reason.
>>
>> I'll follow convention, I just didn't bump into an example to model.
> 
> This means that I should wait for a v2? (Hm, or is this Markus' area,
> actually? Or Jeff's?)
> 
> Otherwise, this series is:
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> 

I hadn't re-rolled just yet, it seems like a matter of taste but I
usually defer to convention for predictability's sake. Waiting for Jeff,
primarily.

--js