From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58185 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMd3R-00057u-Cb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:24:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMd3N-0005Wt-ON for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:24:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20642) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMd3N-0005Wi-FM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:23:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4C10A106.1050108@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:23:34 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 3/6] RAMBlock: Add a name field References: <20100608191447.4451.47795.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <201006091318.49556.paul@codesourcery.com> <1276101449.3079.74.camel@x201> <201006092136.38569.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <201006092136.38569.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: chrisw@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Williamson > I may have been a bit misleading here. What we really want to do is use the > same matching algorithm as is used by the rest of the device state. Currently > this is a vmstate name and [arbitrary] numeric id. I don't remember whether > there's a convenient link from a device to its associated vmstate - if there > isn't there probably should be. DeviceState->info->vmsd->name for the name. Dunno about the numeric id, I think savevm.c doesn't export it. cheers, Gerd