Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 37/36] qdev: device_del: search for to be unplugged device in 'peripheral' container

[Andreas Färber]

Am 07.10.2014 um 14:10 schrieb Igor Mammedov:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 19:59:51 +0800
> Zhu Guihua <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 10:08 +0000, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>> device_add puts every device with 'id' inside of 'peripheral'
>>> container using id's value as the last component name.
>>> Use it by replacing recursive search on sysbus with path
>>> lookup in 'peripheral' container, which could handle both
>>> BUS and BUS-less device cases.
>>>
>>
>> If I want to delete device without id inside of 'peripheral-anon'
>> container, the command 'device_del' does not work. 
>> My suggestion is deleting device by the last component name, is this
>> feasiable?
> So far device_del was designed to work only with id-ed devices.
> 
> What's a use-case for unplugging unnamed device from peripheral-anon?

I can think of use cases where you may want to balloon memory or CPUs.

But that seems orthogonal to this series.

Regards,
Andreas

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