[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 27/49] ac97: add active to the state

[malc]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Juan Quintela wrote:

> malc <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >
> >> This simplifies reset_voices, that only takes one argument now.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
> >> ---
> >>  hw/ac97.c |   42 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
> >>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/hw/ac97.c b/hw/ac97.c
> >> index 610ca60..da6cb2d 100644
> >> --- a/hw/ac97.c
> >> +++ b/hw/ac97.c
> >> @@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ typedef struct AC97BusMasterRegs {
> >>      BD bd;
> >>  } AC97BusMasterRegs;
> >> 
> >> +enum {
> >> +    PI_INDEX = 0,
> >> +    PO_INDEX,
> >> +    MC_INDEX,
> >> +    LAST_INDEX
> >> +};
> >
> > And this was moved becasue...?
> 
> Because I need LAST_INDEX in next part that you quoted.

Ah, missed that, yes.

> >> +
> >>  typedef struct AC97LinkState {
> >>      PCIDevice dev;
> >>      QEMUSoundCard card;
> >> @@ -162,6 +169,7 @@ typedef struct AC97LinkState {
> >>      uint8_t silence[128];
> >>      uint32_t base[2];
> >>      int bup_flag;
> >> +    uint8_t active[LAST_INDEX];
> >
> > This doesn't belong here, cause the only purpose i can see is to hack
> > around defficiencies of the new load/savevm APIs.
> 
> That was supposed to be one of the features, not deficiences.  You can't
> sent stuff that it is not in the state. It is "by design" that you can't
> sent arbitrary variables.

active doesn't belong in the above structure, it's not used for anything
other than save/loadvm. If this "design" doesn't allow this, either find
another way to accomplish the same or fix the "design".

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