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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: obey no_user
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 7 January 2013 20:12, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
>>> It seems to me like arbitrarily allowing the monitor to construct
>>> no-user devices isn't really the right way to attack the problem
>>> of "allow complete machine construction by management tools"...
>>
>> There is no such thing as a 'no-user' device.  It's a silly distinction
>> that has never had a consistent meaning.
>
> Then let's just rip that flag out completely.

I have no objection to that.  I would have done that but it wasn't easy
to script at the time.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> -- PMM