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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] qdev patches.
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:26:19 +0100
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Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

> The other patches switch over various drivers and busses to qdev.  They
> depend on the first two patches.  The conversion work is far from being
> completed.  Currently my main focus is on getting all devices into the
> qdev tree.  Most drivers are not (yet) in a state where creating them
> from a fdt can actually work though.  IMHO the patches are useful
> nevertheless.  YMMV, feel free to cherry-pick some of the patches only.

I'm not so convinced. I don't see much value in "dummy" conversion that still 
requires use of the old APIs to create devices.

Paul