Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qdev: add -pcidevice command line option.

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

> On Monday 29 June 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Here is a patch adding a generic -pcidevice command line switch.
>
> This sort of feature is one of the reasons I object to "partial" qdev 
> conversions. A partially converted device will break in unfriendly ways when 
> you try to instantiate it via this option or a machine config file.
>
> Paul

I don't think these are sensible reasons to block progress on qdev
conversions.

The machine config file does not exist, and won't be useful until the
devices are converted to qdev.

-pcidevice can be useful now, for devices converted to qdev, but it
doesn't fully work for certain incomplete conversions.  While that's
inacceptable for a release, is it really so horrible as a transient step
now?  Besides, we can easily flag incompletely converted devices, and
make -pcidevice not touch them.