Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Initial support for Ilumos build and Illumos-kvm

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 16/03/2012 18:25, Lee Essen ha scritto:
> Correct … but actually this raises another question … why create a separate 
> pointer to kvm_state…
> 
>     KVMState *s = kvm_state;
> 
> … why not just use kvm_state throughout the function?
> 
> This seems to be a common approach in many of the functions in kvm-all.c … is 
> there a reason?

It's historical due to the way things were done in the qemu-kvm fork.
It was done this way in order to let qemu.git and qemu-kvm.git share a
bit more code, IIUC.

Paolo