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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support. |
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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
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] qdev/class: tag sound, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] qdev/class: helper function to get a list of drivers., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] qdev/class: tag network, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qdev/class: core, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qdev/class: make pci_nic_init() use qdev's device list., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Filip Navara, 2009/07/09