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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Assign a default device ID when none
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: stefanha@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aliguori@amazon.com, imammedo@redhat.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Hani Benhabiles <kroosec@gmail.com>

Am 10.01.2014 10:09, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> Commands taking a device ID could be extended to take a path in the QOM
> graph instead of an ID.
>=20
> In the human monitor, it could perhaps work like this:
>=20
>     IDs consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a
>     letter (see id_wellformed())
>    =20
>     If the argument doesn't contain '/', interpret it as ID.
>     Else, if it starts with '/', interpret it as QOM path anchored at
>     "the root" (which needs to be defined).
>     Else, split it at the first '/', and interpret the prefix as ID, an=
d
>     the suffix as as QOM path anchored at whatever has that ID.
>=20
> Requires means to inspect the QOM graph to be usable.

qom-list is available for that purpose today.

Andreas

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