Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [Bug 599958] Re: Timedrift problems with Win7: hpet missing time drift fixups

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Brook wrote:
>>> I really see no tangible objection to Jan's patches.  They don't impact
>>> any other code.  They don't inhibit flexibility in the infrastructure.
>>> You might consider it to be a "hack" but so what.  QEMU is filled with
>>> hacks.  It would be useless without them because there would be very
>>> little code.
>>
>> I object strongly to anything that makes qemu_irq a message passing API.
>> if you want message passing then you should not be using qemu_irq.
>
> Blueswirl objected to the straightforward return-value approach I first
> posted. You seems to be more open towards this, right? Still looks like
> I cannot make you both happy at the same time. So what to do?

I have withdrawn my objection. We can do message passing with some
different API later, for simple coalescing needs the return value
approach is enough.