Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 00/18] qom: dynamic properties and composition tree (v2)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/05/2011 05:13 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Maybe now is the right time to rename the legacy properties to all be
> > > prefixed with qdev-? That way we don't need to introduce two different
> > > types for a single property.
> >
> > Why do you need such a prefix?
>
> To avoid an all-at-once conversion.  I don't want to break -device and
> maintaining string properties make it quite a bit easier to support
> -device.

-device would use parse/print, not get/set.  So it would still use the 
strings.

Paolo