Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] virtio-bus : Introduce VirtioBus.

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:55:56 +0100
Konrad Frederic <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 23/11/2012 13:08, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:50:50 +0100
> > address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >
> >> +/* Create a virtio bus.  */
> >> +VirtioBus *virtio_bus_new(DeviceState *host, const VirtioBusInfo *info)
> >> +{
> >> +    /*
> >> +     * This is needed, as we want to have different names for each 
> >> virtio-bus.
> >> +     * If we don't do that, we can't add more than one VirtIODevice.
> >> +     */
> >> +    static int next_virtio_bus;
> >> +    char *bus_name = g_strdup_printf("virtio-bus.%d", next_virtio_bus++);
> > This still has the overflow/id-reuse problem, hasn't it?
> >
> >> +
> >> +    BusState *qbus = qbus_create(TYPE_VIRTIO_BUS, host, bus_name);
> >> +    VirtioBus *bus = VIRTIO_BUS(qbus);
> >> +    bus->info = info;
> >> +    qbus->allow_hotplug = 0;
> >> +    bus->bus_in_use = false;
> >> +    DPRINTF("%s bus created\n", bus_name);
> >> +    return bus;
> >> +}
> > Don't you need a way to destroy the bus again when the proxy device is
> > hotunplugged?
> >
> Is the virtio-pci-* proxy currently supporting hotunplugging ?
> 

No idea about virtio-pci devices, but since virtio-ccw will support
hotunplugging, we'll certainly need an interface for that.