Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/16] qdev: make the non-legacy pci address property accept an integer

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/03/2012 03:14 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Nope, the legacy property still keeps the dd.f format. This is only
> > for QOM (and
> > internal use by qdev).
>
> Ah, I forgot we duplicate the properties here.
>
> Since there is now a programmatic mapping between legacy properties
> types and non-legacy property types, could we remove the legacy
> properties that now have well behaved types and add some code to
> device_add to maintain compatibility?

I'm not sure... we would trade removal of an ugly concept (the legacy 
properties) with addition of a layering violation (poking into the 
DeviceState subclasses).

We could hide them in qom-list/qom-get, but I'm not sure this would buy 
us anything, either.

Paolo