From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] qom: dynamic properties and composition tree
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:48:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED793D8.9000202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED79238.9050504@us.ibm.com>
On 12/01/2011 04:42 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>>
>> We need good tools to allow easy review of the ABI bits hiding in
>> patches, and to maintain ABI compatibility. Something like
>> qemu-print-abi that dumps all properties for all devices. Patches could
>> show the ABI changes by including a diff of the output of this program
>> from before and after a change, and we could add similar tests for
>> backwards compatibility.
>
> I'm not sure that we want this interface to be backwards compatible.
> I actually think we should provide a higher level interface that's
> explicitly there for compatibility. Probably in the form of a C
> library that can be documented and reasoned with better.
>
Does this force anyone who wants a stable ABI to use this library?
I don't have a good picture of this library. If FooState has a bar
propery, do you generate qemu_foo_get_bar() and qemu_foo_set_bar()
accessors?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 21:03 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] qom: dynamic properties and composition tree Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] qom: add new dynamic property infrastructure based on Visitors Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 8:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 15:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-12-02 1:08 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 9:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-12-02 18:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-05 9:16 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] qom: register legacy properties as new style properties Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 8:33 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 15:51 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-02 1:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 12:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-01 16:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-12-02 1:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/18] qom: introduce root device Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/18] qdev: provide an interface to return canonical path from root Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/18] qdev: provide a path resolution Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 10:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/18] qom: add child properties (composition) Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 11:54 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-12-02 14:54 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/18] qom: add link properties Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 10:55 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 11:21 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 11:35 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 12:34 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 13:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 13:50 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 14:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 13:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 14:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 15:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 15:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 15:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-01 15:13 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 12:15 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-12-02 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/18] qapi: allow a 'gen' key to suppress code generation Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] qmp: add qom-list command Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/18] qom: qom_{get,set} monitor commands Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 11:04 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] qdev: add explicitly named devices to the root complex Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/18] dev: add an anonymous peripheral container Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/18] rtc: make piix3 set the rtc as a child Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 11:07 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/18] rtc: add a dynamic property for retrieving the date Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 15:46 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-02 1:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 12:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-02 13:20 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-02 13:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-12-02 15:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/18] qom: optimize qdev_get_canonical_path using a parent link Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 11:21 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/18] Make qmp.py easier to use Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/18] Add test tools Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 11:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-12-01 13:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 14:03 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-30 21:03 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/18] qdev: split out QOM functions to separate files Anthony Liguori
2011-11-30 22:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] qom: dynamic properties and composition tree Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 14:20 ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-01 14:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-01 14:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-12-01 15:01 ` Anthony Liguori
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