I created a git tree with these patches,
git://git.corpit.ru/qemu.git branch mjt-iov
It includes one extra patch:
6856d2ef3e72753aaa3bcdfc274ee6ae6c112dc6 virtio-serial-bus: use correct
lengths in control_out() message
which has been discussed with Amit Shah and he suggested
me to include it
his is a little cleanup/consolidation for some iovec-related
low-level routines in qemu.
The plan is to make library functions more understandable,
consistent and useful, and to drop numerous implementations
of the same thing.
The patch changes prototypes of several iov and qiov functions
to matc