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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/18] qom: dynamic properties and
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 12/05/2011 10:29 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 05:13 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>>> Maybe now is the right time to rename the legacy properties to all be
>>>> prefixed with qdev-? That way we don't need to introduce two different
>>>> types for a single property.
>>>
>>> Why do you need such a prefix?
>>
>> To avoid an all-at-once conversion. I don't want to break -device and
>> maintaining string properties make it quite a bit easier to support
>> -device.
>
> -device would use parse/print, not get/set. So it would still use the strings.

I don't want -device to have special knowledge of properties.  I want it to set 
the properties are strings.  The property implementation is private to Object.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Paolo