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

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 05/03/2013 00:22, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> Yes, the right thing to do would be to QOMify memory regions and
>> introduce pins, but that's a bit more than the amount of time I have now
>> for this.
> 
> ...plus it means that when we do have these things we
> have to go round and identify the cases where no_user
> was set only because we didn't have the features before.

Yes, that's why my patch includes a comment to this end.

> My attitude here really is "yes, it's not great but it's
> been like this forever and we don't seem to have had a
> huge flood of user complaints, so better not to mess
> with it unless what you're doing is going to amount to
> some kind of cleanup".

I did find a complaint from a Red Hat tester about having the sysbus
EHCI device in the help.  I guess an alternative fix will be to move
those device to a separate CONFIG_ symbol.

Paolo