Re: [Qemu-devel] Memory API: handling unassigned physical memory

[Peter Maydell]

On 1 May 2012 19:57, Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 01/05/12 16:20, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>>> Correctness is more important to me than brevity.
>>>
>>> And really, we should focus on killing things like i8259_init().
>>
>>
>> Functions like i8259_init() exist precisely because
>> QOM/qdev don't provide brevity and people trying to
>> use these devices do in fact value brevity. That's why
>> I want the standard native "connect this thing to this
>> other thing" function to be short and simple.
>
>
> My understanding was that the *_init() functions were legacy and shouldn't
> be used any more - at least I've started removing them and replacing them
> with the slighty more long-winded QOM versions in my working tree.

Yes, that is my opinion and is why I'm arguing with Anthony here...

-- PMM