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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] add default pci subsystem id for all devices.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:10:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808271310.30313.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B3DE05.3000009@redhat.com>

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> This sets a default PCI subsystem ID for all emulated PCI devices.
> PCI specs require this, so do it.  Individual devices can overwrite
> it of course.  The defaults are global variables so they can easily
> be changed (before device creation)

This is just asking for trouble. Having devices set magic global variables 
before they create the device is a truly horrible API.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-27 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-26 10:42 [Qemu-devel] [patch 2/2] add default pci subsystem id for all devices Gerd Hoffmann
2008-08-27 12:10 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-08-27 13:12   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-08-27 13:52     ` Paul Brook
2008-08-27 14:19       ` Gerd Hoffmann

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