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Re: [Xen-devel] future plans for libxl?

Andre Przywara writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] future plans for libxl?"):
> I have a working version of xl info ready.

Great!

> I have still to think about the best approach for some fields to 
> propagate in libxl_get_version_info and libxl_get_physinfo (bitfields 
> vs. strings). I am not sure what the casual library user would like 
> more: Masking bits or strstr'ing for names? For reporting (as in xl 
> info) compiled strings are easier.
> Any suggestions? (I especially think about xen_caps, virt_caps and 
> xen_scheduler)

I think the C interface, that is, the interface to libxl, should be
in terms of bitfields.  xl should do conversion to strings.

Ian.

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