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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "William Tsai" <williamtsai1111@gmail.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Maydell" <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] qom: fix setting of qdev array properties
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 14:59:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZPnJRVnC13X25orb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edja9vkr.fsf@pond.sub.org>

Am 07.09.2023 um 11:33 hat Markus Armbruster geschrieben:
> Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
> > Am 04.09.2023 um 18:25 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
> >> I still think for user creatable devices we'd be better off just
> >> mandating the use of JSON syntax for -device and thus leveraging
> >> the native JSON array type. This patch was the quick fix for the
> >> existing array property syntax though.
> >
> > I agree, let's not apply this one. It puts another ugly hack in the
> > common QOM code path just to bring back the old ugly hack in qdev.
> 
> Since -device supports both JSON and dotted keys, we'd still offer a
> (differently ugly) solution for users averse to JSON.

I'm afraid this is not true until we actually QAPIfy -device and change
the non-JSON path to the keyval parser. At the moment, it still uses
qemu_opts_parse_noisily(), so no dotted key syntax.

Kevin



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-07 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-04 16:25 [PATCH 0/1] qom: fix setting of qdev array properties Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-04 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/1] qom: fix setting of " Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-05  8:58 ` [PATCH 0/1] qom: fix setting of qdev " Kevin Wolf
2023-09-05  9:35   ` Peter Maydell
2023-09-07  9:33   ` Markus Armbruster
2023-09-07  9:35     ` Peter Maydell
2023-09-07 10:06       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-08  9:25       ` Kevin Wolf
2023-09-08  9:27         ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-08 12:16           ` Kevin Wolf
2023-09-08 12:19             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2023-09-08  9:53         ` Peter Maydell
2023-09-08 12:22           ` Kevin Wolf
2023-09-08 12:52             ` Peter Maydell
2023-09-07 12:59     ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2023-09-07 14:16       ` Markus Armbruster
2023-09-07  9:45 ` Markus Armbruster

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