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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] qdev: assign unique names to all devices


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/14] qdev: assign unique names to all devices (part 1)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:24:49 +0200
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Am 19.09.2011 16:05, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 09/19/2011 02:26 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-09-16 20:03, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> So this is a simplification that I plan on running with.  For now, I think 
>>> this
>>> series is the right next step because it gives us a path name for the name
>>> (although different syntax) and let's us enforce that all devices has a
>>> canonical path.
>>
>> For something that changes lots of devices and, at the same time, is
>> going to be removed again, I'm hesitating to call it the right direction.
>>
>> A right step would be, IMHO, to introduce a generic introspectable
>> device link so that parent devices can reference their children and a
>> visitor can derive a child's relative name from that link name. Then
>> make sure this link type is consistently used.
>>
>> I really dislike this focusing on assigning names internally and using
>> them in QEMU-internal APIs. They should just fall out of the core when
>> external interaction is required.
> 
> I thought a lot about this over the weekend and decided that I should go in a 
> different direction based on this discussion.
> [...]

Sounds like a good direction to me. (At least until someone brings up
the details :-))

Kevin



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