Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] event_notifier: move to top-level directory

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-09-27 17:17, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Has no business in hw/.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/event_notifier.c => event_notifier.c |    1 -
>>  hw/event_notifier.h => event_notifier.h |    0
>>  2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>  rename hw/event_notifier.c => event_notifier.c (98%)
>>  rename hw/event_notifier.h => event_notifier.h (100%)
> 
> Yay.  Now perhaps we can kill qemu_eventfd(), whose users are
> typically poking around with write(2) and read(2) when really they
> could use the high-level event_notifier.h API.

EventNotifiers will have to be superseded by something more generic
first. It's not fully covering the use cases of cpus.c and
posix-aio-compat.c.

Jan

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