From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVZy2-0006Ay-N6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:50:23 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVZxz-0000Fl-Fh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:50:22 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::235]:35242) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZVZxz-0000Fg-7u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 02:50:19 -0400 Received: by wicne3 with SMTP id ne3so34346131wic.0 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 2015 23:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini References: <1440689864-32127-1-git-send-email-berrange@redhat.com> <87vbbz8tgq.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55E15616.9030508@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 08:49:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87vbbz8tgq.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: allow object_del & device_del to accept QOM paths List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: Programmingkid , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= On 28/08/2015 14:53, Markus Armbruster wrote: > I believe this makes sense no matter what we do about device IDs (see > thread "Should we auto-generate IDs?"). I haven't read that huge thread yet, but I think it gives the user too much power. There are internal objects that are not supposed to be freed, and freeing them would likely result in a SEGV or similar. Paolo