Re: [Freemint-discuss] vq_devinfo and vqt_devinfo

[Miro K. <mir...@gm...>]

Hi Olivier,

On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 at 19:58, OL <o....@lu...> wrote:

> Looking at toshyp documentation and NVDI 4 english documentation, look
> like there is a small error, third parameter, shoudl not be dev_exist
> but dev_open,

I guess you meant *gemlib* and NVDI4 documentation? TOS.HYP correctly lists
it as dev_open, it is gemlib which goes an extra mile and slightly changed
the function signature AFAICS.


> so the return if driver is found could not be always 1 but
> could be 0 link to vdi_ptsout[0], this value is here the return value
> while documentation said void, return value could be interesting but not
> this one, better I think should be the actual value in dev_exist if we
> want have one (usefull for vqt_devinfo). If something is changed in
> vq_devinfo, warning it impact vqt_devinfo that call it.
>
I'm not sure I completely follow, I guess you are referring to gemlib here?
Maybe propose a patch if you would like to have something changed there?

vqt_devinfo, there is not same number of parameters between gemlib
> and toshyp

This again seems like some kind of oddity in gemlib.

Since you are way more experienced in GEM programming than I am, I can only
repeat my request for providing a patch. :-)

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