From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XorHL-00057i-Px for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:05:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XorHC-0000Tq-PN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:05:27 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::232]:63839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XorHC-0000TZ-Hx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:05:18 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f178.google.com with SMTP id bs8so7635132wib.17 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:05:17 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <54648259.2000006@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:05:13 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1415812130-2592-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> <1415812130-2592-5-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com> <54639572.9020206@suse.de> <5463DE45.1090901@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] Revert "qom: Add automatic arrayification to object_property_add()" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Markus Armbruster , Peter Crosthwaite , QEMU Developers , =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= On 12/11/2014 23:47, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 12 November 2014 22:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > The plan was to move [*] down into the devices. Devices that do not > > need to arrayify properties (e.g. most qdev-ified devices) can then skip > > the [*] and have nicer names. > > Qdev devices have array properties already via a different > mechanism, right? (Did we have a plan to unify them somehow?) I've never looked into qdev array properties that much, actually. But these are not properties with a JSON-array type; they are basically just "a bunch of properties with similar names". Paolo