Re: [Qemu-devel] IDs in QOM

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 07/10/2014 20:41, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
> Is there any way to add netdevs/chardevs/devices in a non-QemuOpts way?

For chardevs, yes.

> I think always checking for the same allowed set of characters is the
> only sane way to do things. Otherwise you end up with names that can be
> used in one place, but not in another, e.g. you can create an object,
> but then not delete it again using HMP.

Note that deletion does not use QemuOpts, so device_del and netdev_del
could delete things with funny names.

> Or you can use a name for
> hotplug, but not on the initial startup when the command line
> configures the device. That's definitely something to be avoided.

I agree.

>>> > > So the "automatic arrayification" convenience feature added a property
>>> > > name restriction.  What makes us sure this is the last time we add name
>>> > > restrictions?
>> > 
>> > Nothing.  However, does it matter, as long as the now-disallowed names
>> > were not possible at all in -object/object_add?
> They were possible in QMP object-add, weren't they?

Yes.  I think we agree that we're going to change that.

Paolo