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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] vl: add -late-object to create QOM
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Andreas Faerber <afaerber@suse.de>

Il 26/06/2012 00:43, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> In order to create qdev objects via -late-object, we almost always have to
> specify the parent_bus which is usually created during machine init.  Until we
> properly support two stage init, introduce a -late-object option that allows for
> creation of objects post-machine init.

This is only needed for -device, no?  So we can avoid introducing it and
just use -device.

Paolo