Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: add no_user for devices using mmio or IRQ or GPIO

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 March 2013 01:32, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> These features require creating the device specially from board
> code.  Therefore, devices that use it cannot be created with
> -device.  (And some of them are even visible in binaries for
> qemu-system-x86_64, for example the sysbus EHCI device).
>
> Mass-mark these devices as no_user.

"There is no such thing as a 'no-user' device" -- Anthony
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-01/msg00896.html)

We should figure out what we might be trying to use 'no-user'
for, and consistently use it that way. Or alternatively we
should remove it (perhaps replacing it with other flags).
Mass-marking all the sysbus devices when we don't have a
consistent sane defined semantics for the flag seems like
a bad idea.

thanks
-- PMM