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From: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Chester Lin <czylin@uwaterloo.ca>
Cc: george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com, jtotto@uwaterloo.ca,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, hjarmstr@uwaterloo.ca,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] libxl: Add explicit cast to libxl_psr_cat_set_cbm
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:28:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1453213715.11427.136.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453213287.29930.52.camel@citrix.com>


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On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 14:21 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-19 at 14:06 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I am not a fan of the cast as a solution.  I would rather, prefer
> > to
> > regularise the situation.  If my co-maintainers agree about the
> > desirability of expecting libxl callers to use enum values from Xen
> > public headers,
> 
> libxl_shutdown_reason has the same issues, libxl_tsc_mode also might,
> as
> might libxl_timer_mode. I'm not sure if there are others. 
>
(FTR) libxl_scheduler too, probably?

> I think we
> generally handle all these the way psr is handled today (with casts
> and/or
> explicit conversion switches).
> 
and in fact, libxl_scheduler --touched in another patch of this
series-- is also handled in a similar way, and in that case, you seemed
to be fine with it? (and I'm not complaining, I'm just genuinely
confused :-) )

Dario
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-19 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 20:26 Taking on a Xen development project jtotto
2015-12-10 10:59 ` Wei Liu
2015-12-10 17:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-12  2:19   ` Yang Hongyang
2015-12-12 22:30     ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-12 23:02       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-14 22:49         ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-11 13:52 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-12 22:07   ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-14 11:08     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-14 22:59       ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-15 15:48         ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-28  5:16       ` Coverity tidying Joshua Otto
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 1/5] libxl: tidy libxl_get_scheduler() according to CODING_STYLE Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:23           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-05  8:20             ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19  5:57               ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  9:14                 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 11:28                 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-19 11:35                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 2/5] libxl: make GC_FREE reachable in libxl_get_scheduler() Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:29           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-05  8:49             ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-05 11:16               ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19  5:57                 ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  9:08                   ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 14:15                   ` Ian Jackson
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 3/5] ns16550: widen an integer constant for Coverity Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:36           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-06  9:26             ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-19  5:57               ` [PATCH v2 3/5] n16550: add sanity check for reg_shift Chester Lin
2016-01-19 13:32                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-25  0:41                   ` czylin
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 4/5] credit: remove pointless local variable initialization Joshua Otto
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 5/5] libxl: Add explicit cast to libxl_psr_cat_set_cbm Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:40           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19  5:58             ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  8:34               ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 14:06               ` Ian Jackson
2016-01-19 14:21                 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 14:28                   ` Dario Faggioli [this message]
2016-01-19 14:33                     ` Ian Jackson
2016-01-19 14:31                   ` George Dunlap
2016-01-19 14:31                 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 14:35                   ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-12 18:08                     ` George Dunlap
2017-01-13  9:05                       ` Dario Faggioli
2015-12-28  9:34         ` Coverity tidying Andrew Cooper
2016-01-01  3:14           ` [PATCH] svm: rephrase local variable use for Coverity Joshua Otto
2016-01-06 13:24             ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-06 14:33               ` Boris Ostrovsky

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