Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/23] qom: move properties from qdev to object

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/30/2012 10:08 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This is mostly code movement although not entirely.  This makes properties part
> of the Object base class which means that we can now start using Object in a
> meaningful way outside of qdev.

Can we move them to an intermediate base class?  I would like to use QOM 
refcounting for other objects, such as SCSIRequest, so it is important 
to have Object as a pretty light-weight class.  Also (and perhaps more 
importantly), interface implementations are Objects too and they do not 
need properties.

I cannot think of any better name than IntrospectableObject, which is 
quite a mouthful.  I suppose that we could have the base class but still 
pass the objects to the function as Object * and use the OBJECT macro. 
Nothing of this is in a hot path anyway.

Paolo