On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:31:47AM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roger Pau Monne
> > Sent: 27 March 2017 16:35
> > To: xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org
> > Cc: Roger Pau Monne <roger....@citrix.com>; Jan Beulich
> > <jbeul...@suse.com>; Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; Paul
> > Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] x86/io: rename misleading dpci_ prefixed functions to
> > hvm_
> > 
> > The dpci_ prefix used on those IO handlers is misleading, there's nothing 
> > PCI
> > specific in them, they simply map a guest IO port into a machine (physical) 
> > IO
> > port. They don't specifically trap the PCI IO port range in any way
> > (0xcf8/0xcfc).
> > 
> > Rename them to use the hvm_ prefix in order to avoid this confusion.
> 
> Actually, I wonder whether a prefix of 'g2m' would be better since  'hvm' 
> sounds pretty generic.

Yes, I've also been wandering whether to use "direct_", but g2m sounds better.

Thanks, Roger.

_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Reply via email to