Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/10] qdev patches.

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 06/22/2009 12:15 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 06/19/09 19:51, Paul Brook wrote:
>> * qdev: update pci device registration
>>
>> I dislike passing an {array,length} pair. Especially when it requires 
>> every
>> user to manually get the right length.
>
> qemu has a ARRAY_SIZE macro which can be used like this:
> (from uhci patch):
>
>     pci_qdev_register(uhci_info, ARRAY_SIZE(uhci_info));
>
> to get the right length, so I don't see this as a problem.
>
> I can create pci_qdev_register_{single,array} macros to hide the 
> length parameter.  I can also just drop the length argument and just 
> use multiple calls in the (few) places where multiple drivers are 
> registered at once.  What do you prefer?

There's a third alternative, zero terminating the array.

If most calls register one qdev, I'd prefer pci_qdev_register() and 
pci_qdev_register_many().

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