Re: [Qemu-arm] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 04/16] hw/core/machine: Introduce pre_init

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:58:56AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:30:37AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 07:40:15PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote:
> > > From: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>
> > 
> > I think this needs some kind of rationale.
> > 
> > Since with this patch it is called immediately before ->init, I'm not
> > really seeing the point of this.
> 
> Many machines already override ->init, so if we want to move code
> from vl.c into machine methods, but be sure that they run it now,
> then we have to invent a pre-init. I (or Igor) can add something
> like that to the commit message for the next round.

If we just want to move vl.c code into machine, why not just
create a simple machine_pre_init() function?

We can add a virtual method that can be reimplemented by
subclasses later, only when we really see the need for a subclass
to override some behavior.

-- 
Eduardo