From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/27] qom: add the base Object class
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:57:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F02C316.2070606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F025757.2060106@codemonkey.ws>
On 01/03/2012 02:18 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> 2) Why do you need a list for the interface objects at all? You can make
>> obj->interfaces point to a single blob, and initialize the objects in
>> place. You
>> only need to store the number of interfaces into the TypeImpl or in
>> the object
>> header, or add a dummy Interface at the end whose contents are all-zero.
>
> Interfaces aren't really handled in a special way. You could easily
> make it so that the infrastructure could be modified to allow true
> multiple inheritance.
>
> I'm not sure I see an obvious benefit to making interfaces handled more
> as a special case. Right now, the only place that really even knows
> about interfaces is dynamic_cast and initialization. That seems like a
> good thing to me.
That wouldn't really be a special case, not any more than initializing a
device's child in-place within the parent struct.
Anyhow, nothing that can't be done as a followup. Will review v2 now.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-20 16:51 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/27] qom: add QEMU Object Model type hierarchy to qdev Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/27] qom: add the base Object class Anthony Liguori
2011-12-21 13:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-21 14:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-21 15:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-12-22 17:25 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-12-22 17:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-22 18:00 ` Kevin O'Connor
2011-12-22 19:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-02 23:01 ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-03 0:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-22 20:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-02 17:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-01-03 1:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-03 8:57 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/27] qdev: integrate with QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/27] qdev: move qdev->info to class Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/27] qdev: don't access name through info Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/27] qdev: use a wrapper to access reset and promote reset to a class method Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/27] pci: check for an initialized QOM object instead of looking for an info link Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/27] qdev: add a interface to register subclasses Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/27] qdev: add class_init to DeviceInfo Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/27] qdev: prepare source tree for code conversion Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/27] not-for-upstream: disable non-qdev pci devices Anthony Liguori
2012-01-02 22:55 ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-03 0:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/27] isa: convert to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/27] usb: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/27] ccid: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/27] ssi: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/27] i2c: rename i2c_slave -> I2CSlave Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/27] i2c: smbus: convert to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/27] hda-codec: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/27] ide: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/27] scsi: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 20/27] not-for-upstream: spapr: break default console Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 21/27] spapr: convert to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 22/27] not-for-upstream: virtio-serial: stub out a strange hack Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 23/27] virtio-serial: convert to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 24/27] grackle: remove broken pci device Anthony Liguori
2012-01-02 22:41 ` Andreas Färber
2012-01-03 0:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 25/27] unin_pci: remove phantom qdev devices in unin_pci Anthony Liguori
2012-01-02 22:44 ` Andreas Färber
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 26/27] pci: convert to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:51 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 27/27] sysbus: " Anthony Liguori
2011-12-20 16:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/27] qom: add QEMU Object Model type hierarchy to qdev Anthony Liguori
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