From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42488) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cORfJ-0004vR-SJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:10:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cORfG-0001Nf-Mm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:10:21 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cORfG-0001NR-GZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2017 11:10:18 -0500 References: <20161229223815.13705-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> <20161230152834.6d1fa963@Igors-MacBook-Pro.local> <20161230182308.GK3441@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> <20170103140252.1a2df147@nial.brq.redhat.com> <20170103142223.GB3315@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:10:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170103142223.GB3315@thinpad.lan.raisama.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Make "hotplugged" property read-only List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eduardo Habkost , Igor Mammedov Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Markus Armbruster , =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=c3=a4rber?= On 03/01/2017 15:22, Eduardo Habkost wrote: >> I didn't know that. Is this documented somewhere? >> Is it actually used by any existing software? > not that I know of. But users should be fixed if they are not using it. > > I see. The problem is that the mechanism is undocumented, > untested, and seems very likely to trigger bugs in device code. I agree. Why can't hotplugged be migrated? Paolo