Re: [Qemu-devel] Should we auto-generate IDs?

[Programmingkid]

On Aug 26, 2015, at 2:45 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 26 August 2015 at 18:16, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That is assuming they have the time and/or the interest in solving this 
>> problem. I
>> suppose giving them some time to respond would be reasonable. I'm thinking if
>> no consensus has been reached in one weeks time (starting today), we turn to
>> Peter Maydell for the answer. Hopefully he will just pick which of the 
>> patches he
>> likes the best. Judging by how long this problem has been ongoing, someone
>> pick the answer is probably the best we can expect.
> 
> This is the kind of thing I strongly prefer to leave to the
> relevant subsystem maintainer(s). My opinion is not worth
> a great deal since I don't have a strong familiarity with
> this bit of QEMU.

It looks unreasonable to assume any consensus can be reached over this issue.
The easy thing to do is to just let each maintainer deal with this problem
his own way. 

Markus:
I know you really wanted a single ID generating system, but it just isn't going
to happen. I will make a patch that would only effect USB devices. All other
devices would be untouched. At least the device_del problem will be solved.