From: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, patches@linaro.org,
KONRAD Frederic <frederic.konrad@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10] mmio-interface: Mark as not user creatable
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 00:58:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170815225854.GP4859@toto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a7372d5b-5826-7a50-20ca-73081f1bb4c6@redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 06:16:22PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 15.08.2017 16:30, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > The mmio-interface device is not something we want to allow
> > users to create on the command line:
> > * it is intended as an implementation detail of the memory
> > subsystem, which gets created and deleted by that
> > subsystem on demand; it makes no sense to create it
> > by hand on the command line
> > * it uses a pointer property 'host_ptr' which can't be
> > set on the command line
> >
> > Mark the device as not user_creatable to avoid confusion.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > hw/misc/mmio_interface.c | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/misc/mmio_interface.c b/hw/misc/mmio_interface.c
> > index da154e5..894e980 100644
> > --- a/hw/misc/mmio_interface.c
> > +++ b/hw/misc/mmio_interface.c
> > @@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ static void mmio_interface_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
> > dc->realize = mmio_interface_realize;
> > dc->unrealize = mmio_interface_unrealize;
> > dc->props = mmio_interface_properties;
> > + /* Reason: pointer property "host_ptr", and this device
> > + * is an implementation detail of the memory subsystem,
> > + * not intended to be created directly by the user.
> > + */
> > + dc->user_creatable = false;
> > }
> >
> > static const TypeInfo mmio_interface_info = {
> >
>
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-15 14:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10] mmio-interface: Mark as not user creatable Peter Maydell
2017-08-15 16:16 ` Thomas Huth
2017-08-15 17:16 ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-15 22:58 ` Edgar E. Iglesias [this message]
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