Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/23] qdev: register all types natively through QEMU Object Model

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 01/30/2012 04:29 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 30 January 2012 21:08, Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com>  wrote:
>> This was done in a mostly automated fashion.  I did it in three steps and then
>> rebased it into a single step which avoids repeatedly touching every file in
>> the tree.
>>
>> The first step was a sed-based addition of the parent type to the subclass
>> registration functions.
>>
>> The second step was another sed-based removal of subclass registration functions
>> while also adding virtual functions from the base class into a class_init
>> function as appropriate.
>>
>> Finally, a python script was used to convert the DeviceInfo structures and
>> qdev_register_subclass functions to TypeInfo structures, class_init functions,
>> and type_register_static calls.
>
> Can you document this process in enough detail so that those of us with
> trees/branches not yet upstream can use it to ease the process of
> rebasing after this lands, please?

Replace DeviceInfo with TypeInfo, mapping:

TypeInfo::name = DeviceInfo::name
TypeInfo::parent = subclass argument to qdev_register_subclass
TypeInfo::instance_size = DeviceInfo::size
TypeInfo::class_init = DeviceInfo::class_init

Any remaining DeviceInfo members being initialized should be moved to the 
class_init function as assignment to DeviceClass.  Use DEVICE_CLASS() to case 
the ObjectClass in the argument to DeviceClass *dc and then assign the members.

Replace qdev_register_subclass calls with type_register_static.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Thanks
> -- PMM
>