From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:19:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907091419.11248.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247144544-8885-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com>
On Thursday 09 July 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch series brings driver classes to qdev.
>
> DeviceInfo gets a new field specifying what kind of device this is.
> For starters there are Sound cards and Network cards. The number
> of device classes will probably grow over time.
>
> The device class will be shown in the listing printed by '-device ?', so
> users and management apps can figure what kinds of -- say -- network
> cards are supported by that particular qemu binary.
I'm not sure this is a good idea. You should be able to figure it out from the
device properties. Plus there's no reason why a device can't implement
multiple "classes" of device.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-09 13:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qdev/class: core Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qdev/class: tag sound Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qdev/class: tag network Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qdev/class: helper function to get a list of drivers Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qdev/class: make pci_nic_init() use qdev's device list Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:19 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-07-09 13:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:48 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-09 14:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-10 7:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-10 9:46 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-10 9:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-10 10:13 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-10 10:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 14:34 ` Filip Navara
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