Re: [Qemu-devel] IDs in QOM (was: [PATCH] util: Emancipate id_wellformed() from QemuOpts)

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:

This discussion seems orthogonal to your patch.  But I'm not applying it
yet to give more time for discussion/review of the patch.

> Is mangling array-ness into the name really a good idea?  Isn't this
> type matter, not name matter?

I agree.  It's nasty to hack the array selector into the name and will
probably cause us pain down the line.

> Backtracking a bit...  Unlike QMP object-add, -object ) and HMP
> object-add use QemuOpts.  See object_create(), commit 68d98d3 "vl: add
> -object option to create QOM objects from the command line", and
> hmp_object_add(), commit cff8b2c "monitor: add object-add (QMP) and
> object_add (HMP) command".  Parameter 'id' is the QemuOpts ID, thus
> bound by its well-formedness rule.
> 
> Therefore, -object and HMP object-add only support a subset of the
> possible names.
> 
> In particular, they do not permit "automatic arrayification".
> 
> Should QOM names be (well-formed!) IDs?

Yes, I think that is sane.

Are there any invalid IDs used as QOM names today?

Hopefully the answer is no and we can lock everything down using
id_wellformed().

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