Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 28/35] kvm: x86: Introduce kvmclock device to save/restore its state

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> Actually, there is already a channel to pass pointers to qdev devices:
> the pointer property hack. I'm not sure we should contribute to its user
> base or take the chance for a cleanup, but we are not alone with this
> requirement. Point below remains valid, though.

It is considered bad/hackish style as you can't create that kind of 
devices using the -device command line switch (or from a machine 
description config file some day in the future).  So we should not add 
more uses of this, especially not in patches which are supposed to 
cleanup things ;)

cheers,
  Gerd