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From: | Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC 0/5] Improve device info handling |
Date: | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:12:21 +0200 |
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Hi,
Add info command registration to the API and make some devices use it.
Jumping in here with a more general comment ... I think right now we have _way_ to much register_something functions.IMHO qdev allows us to kill off most of them. We can stick function pointers (also VMstate pointers) into DeviceInfo instead of registering callbacks.
Short-term (while we are in the "convert-drivers-to-qdev" phase) that will just move the register calls from the driver code to generic qdev code.
Long-term we hopefully can kill the register calls altogether and walk the qdev device tree instead.
User visible monitor commands change: 'info' is replaced by 'dev_info' and also the parameter name may change, for example 'pic' becomes 'i8259.state'.
Hmm, i8259 isn't converted to qdev yet, so the route outlined above above will not work (yet) for this device ...
cheers, Gerd
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