Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: introduce libxl hotplug public API functions

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 20 of 29 RFC] libxl: 
> introduce libxl hotplug public API functions"):
> > - we can reuse the "state" based mechanism to establish a connection:
> > again not a great protocol, but very well known and understood.
> 
> I don't think we have, in general, a good understanding of these
> "state" based protocols ...

What?! We have netback, netfront, blkback, blkfront, pciback, pcifront,
kbdfront, fbfront, xenconsole, and these are only the ones in Linux!!


> Also for an internal mechanism I think we should have something
> autogenerated so avoid having lots of handwritten parsing/emitting code.
 
If I am not mistaken in this series we are reusing existing code, not
adding new one.

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