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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: improve vif2 parsing

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xl: improve vif2 parsing
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:28:07 +0200
Cc: "Przywara, Andre" <Andre.Przywara@xxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gianni Tedesco <gianni.tedesco@xxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Friday 20 August 2010 15:34:29 Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:58 +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:03 +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> > >> Andre Przywara wrote:
> > >>> Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>> vif2 parsing relies on counted strncmp() statements. Replace this
> > >>> with a more robust automatic version.
> > >>
> > >> No, I didn't want to leave this as an exercise to the reader, I am
> > >> just spoiled by git send-email, so forgot to attach the patch. Sorry!
> > >>
> > >>> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Both patches look good to me.
> > >
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> Andre.
> > >>>
> > >>> P.S. If you like this, I have seen at least two more instances of the
> > >>> same issue that could be improved this way.
> > >
> > > Can you say where?
> >
> > In main_networkattach() and main_network2attach().
>
> You should absolutely sort this out. So I had already done a cleanup for
> similar problem with PCI BDF's.

Yes and OS-dependent code still needs to be sorted out.

Christoph


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