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[PATCH v3 0/6] rework notifications terminology

From: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:37:00 -0000

On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:21:28 +0200 Halil Pasic <[email protected]> wrote: > Let's introduce notifications as basic virtio facility early on. This > shall not only increase the cohesion between core and transport > description by having a well-defined place where notifications are > introduced, but also give us the opportunity to explain some > discrepancies. > > Namely notifications sent by the device to the driver were often called > interrupts prior to v1.1. Getting completely rid of that terminology is > however not viable in case of some names. > > Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <[email protected]> > --- > v2 -> v3: > * Consistent use of 'configuration change notification' (instead > of 'device configuration space notification' -- thanks Connie) > * s/semantic/semantics/ and comma (thanks Stefan) > --- > content.tex | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>