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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] vl: add -late-object to create QOM
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To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Andreas F=C3=A4rber <afaerber@suse.de> writes:

> Am 02.07.2012 14:32, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> Il 26/06/2012 00:43, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> In order to create qdev objects via -late-object, we almost always have=
 to
>>> specify the parent_bus which is usually created during machine init.  U=
ntil we
>>> properly support two stage init, introduce a -late-object option that a=
llows for
>>> creation of objects post-machine init.
>>=20
>> This is only needed for -device, no?  So we can avoid introducing it and
>> just use -device.
>
> +1, was thinking along the same lines...

Sorry for such a delayed response...

The semantics of how -device is different in that it implies realize.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Andreas
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