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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 28/35] kvm: x86: Introduce kvmclock device to sa
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 28/35] kvm: x86: Introduce kvmclock device to save/restore its state |
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Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:13:44 +0100 |
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Am 11.01.2011 09:53, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> 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).
That kind of instantiation wouldn't be possible for device models that
require someone actively passing kvm_state to them...
> So we should not add
> more uses of this, especially not in patches which are supposed to
> cleanup things ;)
You won't see me disagree.
Jan
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