Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add virtio-input driver.

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 02:44:52PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> > > At least, this needs a comment explaining what the function does,
> > > and maybe wrap it in a helper like virtio_input_bitmap_copy or
> > > virtio_bitmap_or.
> > 
> > Can do that, sure.
> 
> Well, the function where this is in already cares about the bitmap copy
> only.  Can add a comment though.

OK, I think that will be enough for now.

> > > You are doing leXXX everywhere, that's VERSION_1 dependency.
> > > virtio_cread will do byteswaps differently without VERSION_1.
> > > Just don't go there.
> > 
> > Changed that for v2, for the config space structs.  They have normal u32
> > in there now.  virtio_cread() wants it this way.
> 
> I liked the __le32 in the config space structs more though, so I've
> waded through the virtio_config.h header file.
> 
> To me it looks like we need separate virtio_cread() versions for
> non-transitional drivers, which do __le32 -> u32 translation instead of
> __virtio32 -> u32 translation, so I can have __le32 types in the config
> space structs.
> 
> Or I could use vdev->config->get() directly instead of virtio_cread, but
> I'll loose sparse checking that way.
> 
> Hmm.  Recommendations?  Better ideas?
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd

So to clarify, you dislike using __virtio32 in virtio input header?

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