Re: [RFC v2 0/7] add function support to IDL

[Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 8:41 AM Nick Rosbrook <rosbrookn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:48:02AM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Nick Rosbrook writes ("[RFC v2 0/7] add function support to IDL"):
> > > At a Xen Summit design session for the golang bindings (see [1]), we
> > > agreed that it would be beneficial to expand the libxl IDL with function
> > > support. In addition to benefiting libxl itself, this would allow other
> > > language bindings to easily generate function wrappers.
> > >
> > > The first version of this RFC is quite old [1]. I did address comments
> > > on the original RFC, but also expanded the scope a bit. As a way to
> > > evaluate function support, I worked on using this addition to the IDL to
> > > generate device add/remove/destroy functions, and removing the
> > > corresponding macros in libxl_internal.h. However, I stopped short of
> > > actually completing a build with this in place, as I thought it made
> > > sense to get feedback on the idea before working on the next step.
> >
> > This is exciting!  I hope to find time to look at it, but I'm the
> > release manager for Xen 4.15 and that's taking most of my time right
> > now.
>
> Of course, I understand. Thank you for expressing interest, I look
> forward to hearing your thoughts when time permits.
>
Hi,

Just thought I would send a ping to see if anyone has time to review.

Thanks,
NR