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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Jiri Denemark" <jdenemar@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] target-i386: Register QOM properties for feature flags
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:24:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55251E03.3040302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150408122013.GS7031@thinpad.lan.raisama.net>



On 08/04/2015 14:20, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>> > it would be better to create generic bit property and replace above code with it
>> > something similar to object_property_add_uint32_ptr()
> object_property_add_*_ptr() adds read-only properties, and I didn't want
> to make object_property_add_bit_ptr() inconsistent with the other
> functions. But maybe it is better to have an inconsistent but reusable
> API than making the new code non-reusable by keeping it inside
> target-i386/cpu.c. I will give it a try.

add_*_ptr() is read-only because read-only properties do not require
validations (at least that's the common case).  So I think the
inconsistent API is worse than a local one.

> BTW, it is on my wishlist to remove the existing duplication in
> DEFINE_PROP_*(), QAPI, and object_property_add_*(), that are supposed to
> support the same data types without duplicating code, but this may take
> a while.

Yeah, that would be nice...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-08 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-07 20:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] target-i386: Feature properties, sample script for -global/-readconfig Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] target-i386: Move error handling to end of x86_cpu_parse_featurestr() Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08  8:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] target-i386: Remove underscores from feature names Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] target-i386: Register QOM properties for feature flags Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08  8:30   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-08 11:06     ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08 12:53       ` Andreas Färber
2015-04-08 11:36   ` Igor Mammedov
2015-04-08 12:20     ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08 12:24       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-04-08 14:09         ` Igor Mammedov
2015-04-08 15:01           ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08 15:36             ` Igor Mammedov
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] target-i386: Make "level" and "xlevel" properties static Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] target-i386: X86CPU::xlevel2 QOM property Eduardo Habkost
2015-04-08  8:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-07 20:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] scripts: x86-cpu-model-dump script Eduardo Habkost

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