Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] qdev/core: bus list

[Markus Armbruster]

Paul Brook <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tuesday 30 June 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>  * maintain a list of busses.
>>  * maintain bus numbers.
>>  * add function to find busses by type / name / number.
>>  * add monitor command to list busses.
>
> I still object to this patch. Busses should be identified by their location 
> in 
> the tree, not by number.
>
> Paul

Location in the tree can be uniquely identified by a number.  Handy when
all you want is enumerate the buses, and you don't really care where
they're hanging out in the tree.  Why should something like that not be
done?