From: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:34:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5b31733c0907090734u5161191x6ef7fa64a29446e5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907091419.11248.paul@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Paul Brook<paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 09 July 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This patch series brings driver classes to qdev.
>>
>> DeviceInfo gets a new field specifying what kind of device this is.
>> For starters there are Sound cards and Network cards. The number
>> of device classes will probably grow over time.
>>
>> The device class will be shown in the listing printed by '-device ?', so
>> users and management apps can figure what kinds of -- say -- network
>> cards are supported by that particular qemu binary.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea. You should be able to figure it out from the
> device properties. Plus there's no reason why a device can't implement
> multiple "classes" of device.
>
> Paul
I was just thinking about the same. There are several multi-class devices and
I don't see a way to represent them with this mechanism.
Best regards,
Filip Navara
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-09 13:02 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qdev/class: core Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qdev/class: tag sound Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qdev/class: tag network Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qdev/class: helper function to get a list of drivers Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:02 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qdev/class: make pci_nic_init() use qdev's device list Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support Paul Brook
2009-07-09 13:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 13:48 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-09 14:26 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-10 7:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-10 9:46 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-10 9:59 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-10 10:13 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-10 10:29 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-09 14:34 ` Filip Navara [this message]
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