Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] hw/arm/aspeed_soc: Mark devices as user_creatable = false

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 08/22/2017 02:47 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> QEMU currently aborts if the user is accidentially trying to
> do something like this:
> 
> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -S -M integratorcp -nographic
> QEMU 2.9.93 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) device_add ast2400
> Unexpected error in error_set_from_qdev_prop_error()
>  at hw/core/qdev-properties.c:1032:
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> The ast2400 SoC devices are clearly not creatable by the user since
> they are using the serial_hds and nd_table arrays directly in their
> realize function, so mark them with user_creatable = false.

yes. I suppose we don't need to instantiate such an object without 
the machine. And even for unit tests, we would rather use the 
individual controller models.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden>

Thanks,

C.

> ---
>  hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> index 5529024..7f1be04 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/aspeed_soc.c
> @@ -338,6 +338,8 @@ static void aspeed_soc_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void 
> *data)
>  
>      sc->info = (AspeedSoCInfo *) data;
>      dc->realize = aspeed_soc_realize;
> +    /* Reason: Uses serial_hds and nd_table in realize() directly */
> +    dc->user_creatable = false;
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo aspeed_soc_type_info = {
>