Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.4 1/2] core: reset handler for bus-less devices

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:06:45 +0200
Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:

> Found it. So the problem *is* different from what I understood! It's not
> directly attached to /machine by s390x code, but rather instantiated via
> -device by the user.
> 
> Peter C. suggested you to do it in realize, which affects all devices.
> 
> The solution would be to instead either do the reset registration in
> qdev-monitor.c, where it's specific to devices that do not have a bus
> and on /machine/peripheral or /machine/periph-anon are not managed by a
> parent, or to add a further check here in realized. Right now I can only
> think of a hot-plug flag...? Not sure about unrealizing in the
> qdev-monitor case, but I think we can ignore that in this case?

This sounds not like something we'll want to do during hardfreeze,
though.

I'll just fall back to the original patch that registered a reset so
this works for now, and we can think of a more generic solution later.