From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>,
"QEMU Trivial" <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
"Gan Qixin" <ganqixin@huawei.com>,
"Chenqun (kuhn)" <kuhn.chenqun@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] bcm2835_cprman: put some peripherals of bcm2835 cprman into the 'misc' category
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:08:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8fUnjmDy-1g0fsQyaNCHDqvEnLgE5073h-dGkCk7Rztg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873618czgj.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 05:41, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> > I'm really dubious of devices that directly inherit from
> > TYPE_DEVICE, because their reset method won't be automatically
> > called. In this case it looks like the TYPE_BCM2835_CPRMAN
> > device's reset method manually calls reset on these devices,
> > though, so it isn't actually buggy, just confusing.
>
> I guess this is a trap for unwary implementers, aggravated by our usual
> dearth of qdev documentation. I can see ~100 .parent = TYPE_DEVICE
> lines. Checking them all manually won't be fun. Any automation ideas?
>
> The concept "bus-less device" is sane. We used not to have it, and the
> resulting need for pseudo-busses was annoying enough to make us add
> bus-less devices.
Yeah, the problem really is that our reset handling remains a
mess. I'm not sure (a) what the right model for reset is and
(b) what would be a feasible transition plan to get from
here to there...
thanks
-- PMM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-15 18:48 [PATCH 00/13] Categorize some uncategorized devices Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 01/13] pc-dimm: put it into the 'storage' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 02/13] virtio-pmem: " Gan Qixin
2020-11-19 14:12 ` Pankaj Gupta
2020-12-04 7:24 ` Pankaj Gupta
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 03/13] vmmouse: put it into the 'input' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-16 14:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 04/13] nvdimm: put it into the 'storage' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 05/13] mc146818rtc: put it into the 'misc' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 06/13] ipmi: put some ipmi devices into the correct category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 07/13] tpm: put some tpm " Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 08/13] AMDVI-PCI: put it into the 'misc' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:48 ` [PATCH 09/13] u2f-passthru: put it into the 'usb' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-16 14:04 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-17 6:58 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-11-17 13:40 ` ganqixin
2020-11-17 13:37 ` ganqixin
2020-12-04 13:50 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-12-07 8:05 ` ganqixin
2020-12-07 8:52 ` Thomas Huth
2020-11-15 18:49 ` [PATCH 10/13] tosa-ssp: put it into the 'misc' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:49 ` [PATCH 11/13] spitz: put some Spitz-family devices into the correct category Gan Qixin
2020-11-15 18:49 ` [PATCH 12/13] SPI flash devices: put them into the 'storage' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-16 13:59 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-16 16:19 ` Alistair Francis
2020-11-15 18:49 ` [PATCH 13/13] bcm2835_cprman: put some peripherals of bcm2835 cprman into the 'misc' category Gan Qixin
2020-11-16 13:25 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-16 13:31 ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-16 14:33 ` Thomas Huth
2020-11-16 14:30 ` Thomas Huth
2020-11-16 17:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-16 17:15 ` Peter Maydell
2020-11-17 5:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-17 11:08 ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-11-17 20:12 ` Thomas Huth
2020-11-18 8:41 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-11-18 8:50 ` Should bus-less devices default to .user_creatable = false? (was: [PATCH 13/13] bcm2835_cprman: put some peripherals of bcm2835 cprman into the 'misc' category) Markus Armbruster
2020-11-18 9:08 ` Thomas Huth
2020-11-17 14:02 ` [PATCH 13/13] bcm2835_cprman: put some peripherals of bcm2835 cprman into the 'misc' category ganqixin
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