Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] Improve device info handling

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

   Hi,

> Add info command registration to the API and make some devices use it.

Jumping in here with a more general comment ...

I think right now we have _way_ to much register_something functions.
IMHO qdev allows us to kill off most of them.  We can stick function 
pointers (also VMstate pointers) into DeviceInfo instead of registering 
callbacks.

Short-term (while we are in the "convert-drivers-to-qdev" phase) that 
will just move the register calls from the driver code to generic qdev code.

Long-term we hopefully can kill the register calls altogether and walk 
the qdev device tree instead.

> User visible monitor commands change: 'info' is replaced by 'dev_info'
> and also the parameter name may change, for example 'pic' becomes
> 'i8259.state'.

Hmm, i8259 isn't converted to qdev yet, so the route outlined above 
above will not work (yet) for this device ...

cheers,
   Gerd