+-- On Mon, 17 Aug 2020, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote --+
| On 8/17/20 7:02 AM, P J P wrote:
| > +-- On Sun, 16 Aug 2020, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote --+
| > | What about read_with_attrs()/write_with_attrs()? It seems they are part 
| > | of the same problem.
| > 
| > * read/write_with_attrs function is called if read/write callback is not 
| >   defined
| > 
| >   ../softmmu/memory.c
| >     if (mr->ops->write) {
| >                     ... memory_region_write_accessor, mr,
| >     } else {
| >                     ... memory_region_write_with_attrs_accessor,
| > 
| >   So, defining read/write methods may also address read/write_with_attrs 
| >   issue?
| > 
| > * $ grep -Eri -A 5 -B 5 '(\.read_with_attrs|\.write_with_attrs)' . | fpaste
| > 
| >    -> https://paste.centos.org/view/386c9597
| > 
| >   It doesn't show an occurrence where one of the read/write_with_attrs is 
| >   missing.
| > 
| > * Nevertheless, if we need to define read/write_with_attrs routines, because 
| >   memory_region_init_io() would assert(3) for them
| > 
| >   could that be a subsequent patch series please?
| 
| Yes no problem, I was just wondering and wasn't sure.


@Peter, @Paolo: (To confirm)
   Do we ping/reach out to respective maintainers for merging this series?


Thank you.
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