Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/7] qom: allow properties to be registered against classes

[Andreas Färber]

Am 03.09.2015 um 18:37 schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <address@hidden> writes:
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 06:18:28PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>> I had suggested exactly this looong time ago, but Anthony opposed it. I
>>> don't quite remember why...
>>
>> It is a while back now so I don't remember all aspects of the discussion
>> either. The main thing I remember is that we could not simply use the
>> existing GObject model from glib, since that exclusively records properties
>> against the object class. In some cases, particularly the relationships
>> between objects, QEMU needed to be able to define properties on the fly
>> against object instances.
> 
> I remember Anthony's assertion that this is the case, but I don't
> remember the actual problems where this is actually the case.
> 
> What properties do we currently define that could not be defined against
> the class?

All child<> properties and everything on Container objects.

Cheers,
Andreas

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