Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] qom: Create object-property-ptr.[ch]

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 03:40:29PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> There's nothing standard in QOM, but in patch 10 in this series
> Peter has a DEFINE_TLS_PROP_HELPERS() which macro-ized the
> repetitive getters/setters for the TLS string properties. The
> duplicate code still exists in the binary of course, just hidden
> from the source.

I believe we have the standard, which is qdev-properties.. which is (1)
class properties, (2) allow variable bindings so no setter/getter needed,
remembering them with pointer offsets.

It goes back to last version where the question becomes: whether we want to
make qdev-properties to be official QOM API, by removing qdev specific
changes and move them over to qom/.  Then make qdev only add its special
things on top.

Said that, considering if we want to make all things qom-set-able to
migration in the future, another option is directly go with getter/setter
that will do the property checks one by one. One benefit of that is we can
then get rid of migrate_params_check() and migrate_caps_check() altogether.

Maybe I should go with the latter, and forget qdev?

Thanks,

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Peter Xu