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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.


From: Paul Brook
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:19:10 +0100
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On Thursday 09 July 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> This patch series brings driver classes to qdev.
>
> DeviceInfo gets a new field specifying what kind of device this is.
> For starters there are Sound cards and Network cards.  The number
> of device classes will probably grow over time.
>
> The device class will be shown in the listing printed by '-device ?', so
> users and management apps can figure what kinds of -- say -- network
> cards are supported by that particular qemu binary.

I'm not sure this is a good idea. You should be able to figure it out from the 
device properties. Plus there's no reason why a device can't implement 
multiple "classes" of device.

Paul




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