[libvirt] [PATCH v3 00/13] CPU selection patches

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:14:24AM +0100, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > > Changes in version 3:
> > > - fix build and segfault on i386
> > >
> > > Changes in version 2:
> > > - virConnectGetHostCPU() API call was completely removed
> > > - 'CPU driver implementation' (11/14) patch was dropped
> > > - virConnectCompareCPU() API call is implemented directly by hypervisor
> > >  drivers
> > > - new cpuCompareXML() internal function to make virConnectCompareCPU()
> > >  simpler
> > >
> > > Jirka
> > >
> > 
> > You've put some relevant documentation about the CPU flag handling to
> > the commit messages. IMHO this documentation should be collected and
> > the libvirt user relevant part (for example from patch 1 v3) should go
> > to the libvirt website sections about the domain/capabilities XML
> > format
> 
> Right, good idea.
> 
> > and the libvirt library/driver developer related part (for
> > example from patch 9 v3) should go to src/cpu/README, or something
> > like that.
> 
> This is also a good idea but I'm not sure where to put the documentation. Is
> the src/cpu/README a good place or is there any better place for documenting
> internals of libvirt for driver developers? Perhaps HACKING? Although it seems
> to document a bit more general techniques used in libvirt.

Actually anything that's intended for driver developers can also go on
the website in this section:

   http://libvirt.org/internals.html

We should move other stuff we've written like my THREADS.txt guides 
to there too some time

Regards,
Daniel
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