From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
"Wanpeng Li" <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] qdev: add qdev_add_properties
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 17:23:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA06251.3060400@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA05FCA.2040408@redhat.com>
On 05/01/2012 05:12 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/05/2012 00:01, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>
>> There's magic in the qdev layer now to decide whether a Property in the
>> array of properties becomes a legacy or static property (it's only ever
>> exposed as one type).
>
> I don't think this is true: a legacy property always has a static
> counterpart. The magic (really just a fallback) is to decide whether
> -device<type>,<prop>=<value> will use the legacy property or a string
> visitor + a static property.
Yes, I mispoke. All legacy properties are static properties but not all static
properties are legacy (IIUC).
The exception is PROP_PTR which is always a legacy but never a static.
So there is quite a bit of magic.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Paolo
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-01 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-01 18:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/14] qom: convert busses to QOM (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/14] qdev: fix adding of ptr properties Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/14] object: add object_property_foreach Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:02 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/14] qdev: add qdev_add_properties Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:05 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 20:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 20:43 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 20:48 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 20:57 ` Peter Maydell
2012-05-01 22:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 22:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 22:23 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/14] qdev: don't allow globals to be set by bus name Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 20:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 20:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 21:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 22:18 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 22:23 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 22:18 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 6:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/14] qdev: use wrapper for qdev_get_path Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 12:35 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/14] qdev: move properties from businfo to base class instance init Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/14] qdev: fix info qtree/qdm Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 7:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/14] qdev: convert busses to QEMU Object Model Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:31 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 20:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/14] qdev: connect some links and move type to object (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:47 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/14] qbus: move get_dev_path to DeviceState Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 7:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/14] qbus: move get_fw_dev_path to DeviceClass Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:34 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 22:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 22:36 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-02 7:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/14] qbus: move print_dev " Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 19:37 ` Andreas Färber
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/14] qbus: make child devices links Anthony Liguori
2012-05-01 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/14] qbus: initialize in standard way Anthony Liguori
2012-05-02 8:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
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