Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qdev: add -pcidevice command line option.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> -pcidevice can be useful now, for devices converted to qdev, but it
> doesn't fully work for certain incomplete conversions.

For incomplete conversions it may cause all sorts of strange effects, so 
Paul has a point here IMHO.

> While that's
> inacceptable for a release, is it really so horrible as a transient step
> now?  Besides, we can easily flag incompletely converted devices, and
> make -pcidevice not touch them.

While thinking about that:  We probably need a flag in DeviceInfo anyway 
to tag devices which are not supposed to be added via -pcidevice (soon 
to be -device).  It doesn't make much sense to allow the user adding - 
say - interrupt controllers via command line.

Such a flag could also be used to prevent incompletely converted drivers 
to be used via -device.

cheers,
  Gerd