Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-20 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 15:25 +, Jan Beulich wrote: > Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got > submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's > system header not necessarily reflecting the correct numbers), take > this as a strong sign that we need t

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/01/15 16:49, Jan Beulich wrote: On 15.01.15 at 17:27, wrote: >> On 15/01/15 15:25, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got >>> submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's >>> system header not necessarily reflecting

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-15 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 15.01.15 at 17:27, wrote: > On 15/01/15 15:25, Jan Beulich wrote: >> Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got >> submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's >> system header not necessarily reflecting the correct numbers), take >> this as a st

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-15 Thread Ian Campbell
On Thu, 2015-01-15 at 16:27 +, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 15/01/15 15:25, Jan Beulich wrote: > > > Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got > > submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's > > system header not necessarily reflecting the correct nu

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-15 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 15/01/15 15:25, Jan Beulich wrote: > Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got > submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's > system header not necessarily reflecting the correct numbers), take > this as a strong sign that we need to make the error

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] make error codes a formal part of the ABI

2015-01-15 Thread Jan Beulich
Now that we have two cases where patches against hvmloader got submitted needing to include the hypervisor's errno.h (for the host's system header not necessarily reflecting the correct numbers), take this as a strong sign that we need to make the error return values part of the hypervisor ABI (whi