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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Semantics of DeviceState::realized and
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

Il 12/06/2012 00:05, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> 
> opened = true
> attached = true
> 
> This means that the device is in-use by something in QEMU.  Requests may
> be in flight as read/write requests are now allowed to be issued.
> 
> Most properties cannot be changed in this state (presumably).

So this is "realized".

Or Object needs to provide support for multiple states, and (static)
properties can have a bitmap of which states let them be modified.

Paolo