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| To: | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH][XEN] PV blk backend: Make 32bit PV guests work on 64bit PV Dom0 |
| From: | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:04:47 +0100 |
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On 28/7/08 14:00, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Quite the opposite. By doing it in your own header files you can specify >>> the structure names and so on exactly how you would like them to be for the >>> particular OS concerned. >> >> I'm concerned about having/keeping the API/ABI the same between all OS's and >> not about their implementation. > > The interfaces (both the API exposed by public/ headers; and the ABI they > describe) won't change. At least not in a way that isn't backward > compatible. Or we'd be breaking old OSes all the time! I might add: why would placing those extra struct definitions in the public headers make it any more or less likely that we'll break compatibility in future? That makes no sense to me. -- Keir _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel |
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