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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] qdev/core: bus list
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:21:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906301821.18245.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k52t8xvk.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>

On Tuesday 30 June 2009, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > On Tuesday 30 June 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>  * maintain a list of busses.
> >>  * maintain bus numbers.
> >>  * add function to find busses by type / name / number.
> >>  * add monitor command to list busses.
> >
> > I still object to this patch. Busses should be identified by their
> > location in the tree, not by number.
> >
> > Paul
>
> Location in the tree can be uniquely identified by a number.  Handy when
> all you want is enumerate the buses, and you don't really care where
> they're hanging out in the tree.  Why should something like that not be
> done?

The address of the BusState is also a locally unique identifier. That doesn't 
mean it's a good thing to expose to the user.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30  9:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] qdev patches, batch #1 Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] qdev: update pci device registration Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] qdev: replace bus_type enum with bus_info struct Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] qdev: remove DeviceType Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] qdev/core: bus list Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30 11:18   ` Paul Brook
2009-06-30 16:55     ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-30 17:21       ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-06-30 19:26         ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-30 19:49           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-30 20:18             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30 20:36               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-01  0:25               ` Paul Brook
2009-07-01  6:32                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-01  0:12             ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-01  0:29               ` Paul Brook
2009-06-30  9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] qdev/core: add monitor command to list all drivers Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] qdev/pci: misc fixes Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30 11:25   ` Paul Brook
2009-06-30 16:51     ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-30  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] qdev: convert es1370 Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] qdev: convert ac97 Gerd Hoffmann

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