Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/input/lm832x: set device category of lm832x

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

 Hi,

On 2019-01-27 11:18, kumar sourav wrote:
> Sets the category of lm832x as DEVICE_CATEGORY_INPUT
> Devices should be assigned to one of DEVICE_CATEGORY_XXXX
> 
> Signed-off-by: kumar sourav <sourav.jb1988@gmail.com>
> ---
>  hw/input/lm832x.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/input/lm832x.c b/hw/input/lm832x.c
> index cffbf586d4..07ae5e0aee 100644
> --- a/hw/input/lm832x.c
> +++ b/hw/input/lm832x.c
> @@ -509,6 +509,7 @@ static void lm8323_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
>      k->recv = lm_i2c_rx;
>      k->send = lm_i2c_tx;
>      dc->vmsd = &vmstate_lm_kbd;
> +    set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_INPUT, dc->categories);
>  }

This device already has DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC set since it is derived
from TYPE_I2C_SLAVE. If you now set another category bit here, the
device shows up twice in the output of "-device help". That's not so nice.

I see multiple options here:

1) Drop this patch since the device already has a category

2) Make sure to clear_bit() the MISC category here again

3) Remove the set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC, k->categories) in
   hw/i2c/core.c - it does not make that much sense to set the
   MISC category for an abstract parent class.

4) Introduce a new DEVICE_CATEGORY_I2C which could be used
   instead of the DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC in hw/i2c/core.c

One of the last two options sound most appealing to me.

 Thomas