From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce CharDriverState qdev property type
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:48:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A66E06B.80307@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A65E30F.1090608@us.ibm.com>
On 07/21/09 17:47, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Not sure what qdev_prop_set_chrdev() should accept then. struct
>> pointer? string?
>
> Good question. I think it depends on how we connect things. We could
> introduce another structure for front-ends and then have a separate
> connect mechanism. The association of names would be transparent to
> qdev/devices.
Hmm. When going that route it we might not use attributes at all but
just tie stuff directly into Device*, i.e. DeviceState gets a backend
link and DeviceInfo gets a connect callback.
> We could also hand the chrdev structure directly to the device but then
> you have to deal with setting/unsetting.
Optional Property->notify() callback should do for devices which
actually care (cdrom to signal media change to guest maybe).
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-22 9:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-17 14:41 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2][RFC] Introduce macros for setting properties Anthony Liguori
2009-07-17 14:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Introduce CharDriverState qdev property type Anthony Liguori
2009-07-21 14:46 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-21 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-21 15:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-21 15:14 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-21 15:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-21 15:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-21 15:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-22 9:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-07-17 14:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Introduce macro for defining qdev properties Anthony Liguori
2009-07-17 17:23 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-17 17:26 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-17 17:33 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-17 18:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-17 18:32 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-17 20:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-17 22:58 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-18 12:43 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-18 16:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-20 2:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-21 8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
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