Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND 0/9] virtio: fix virtio child recount in transports

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:09:06PM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> > From: Cornelia Huck [mailto:cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 6:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/9] virtio: fix virtio child recount in transports
> > 
> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 10:37:23 +0000
> > "Gonglei (Arei)" <arei.gonglei@huawei.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > One thing I noticed is that the various devices end up with similar
> > > > > code in the end:
> > > > >
> > > > >      object_initialize(&dev->vdev, sizeof(dev->vdev), TYPE_WHATEVER);
> > > > >      object_property_add_child(obj, "virtio-backend",
> > > > OBJECT(&dev->vdev),
> > > > > NULL);
> > > > >      object_unref(OBJECT(&dev->vdev));
> > > > >      qdev_alias_all_properties(DEVICE(&dev->vdev), obj);
> > > > >
> > > > > Would it make sense to add a helper function for that?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sorry, I'm afraid this is not helpful. Because dev and dev->vdev is different
> > > for different virtio devices, like VirtIOBlkPCI(and its vdev is VirtIOBlock),
> > > VirtIONetPCI(and its vdev is VirtIONet). They have no the same parameters
> > > for above code segment. :)
> > 
> > Hm...
> > 
> > void virtio_instance_init_common(Object *proxydev,
> >                                  DeviceState *vdev,
> >                                  size_t vdevsize,
> >                                  const char *vdevname)
> > {
> >     object_initialize(vdev, vdevsize, vdevname);
> >     object_property_add_child(proxydev, "virtio-backend", OBJECT(vdev),
> > NULL);
> >     object_unref(OBJECT(vdev));
> >     qdev_alias_all_properties(vdev, proxydev);
> > }
> > 
> > and have the initializers call
> > 
> > virtio_instance_init_common(obj, DEVICE(&dev->vdev), sizeof(dev->vdev),
> > TYPE_WHATEVER);
> > 
> > ?
> 
> OK, it looks good that pass all parameters to one wrapper function. 
> Will do this in next version.
> 
> Thanks, Cornelia. :)
> 
> Best regards,
> -Gonglei

I'm fine with doing the cleanup as a patch on top.
Cornelia, fine with you?