Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/30] qdev: prepare source tree for code conversion

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/04/2012 08:07 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 03.01.2012 01:52, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> > These are various small stylistic changes which help make things more
> > consistent such that the automated conversion script can be simpler.
> >
> > It's not necessary to agree or disagree with these style changes because all
> > of this code is going to be rewritten by the patch monkey script anyway.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>
> > ---
>
> > diff --git a/hw/es1370.c b/hw/es1370.c
> > index 6a3ba55..3527eb6 100644
> > --- a/hw/es1370.c
> > +++ b/hw/es1370.c
> > @@ -1041,13 +1041,8 @@ static PCIDeviceInfo es1370_info = {
> >       .vendor_id    = PCI_VENDOR_ID_ENSONIQ,
> >       .device_id    = PCI_DEVICE_ID_ENSONIQ_ES1370,
> >       .class_id     = PCI_CLASS_MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO,
> > -#if 1
> >       .subsystem_vendor_id = 0x4942,
> >       .subsystem_id = 0x4c4c,
> > -#else
> > -    .subsystem_vendor_id = 0x1274,
> > -    .subsystem_id = 0x1371,
> > -#endif
> >   };
> >
> >   static void es1370_register (void)
>
> It is worth noting that this is *not* a stylistic change but actually
> dropping device information from the tree.

The #else clause is dead code.  It continues to remain in git history but it 
doesn't serve any purpose in it's current form (it does not affect the build 
whatsoever).

> malc, what is the meaning of the currently unused values? Would it make
> sense to move them to a separate PCIDeviceInfo so that they survive the
> QOM introduction?

FWIW, I'm fairly sure you can set subsystem vendor and device id via qdev 
properties so you can always override to these values if you want.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Andreas