Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/5] qdev: add the HotUnpluggable handler

[Greg Kurz]

On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 17:14:36 +0200
Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:00:13 +0200
> Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > This handler allows to ask a device instance if it can be hot-unplugged. It
> > is to be defined in device classes where hot-unpluggability depends on the
> > device state (for example, virtio-9p devices cannot be unplugged if the 9p
> > share is mounted in the guest).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  hw/core/qdev.c         |    4 ++++
> >  include/hw/qdev-core.h |    4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
> > index 4ab04aa31e78..2b2339c7c6ad 100644
> > --- a/hw/core/qdev.c
> > +++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
> > @@ -287,6 +287,10 @@ void qdev_unplug(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> >          return;
> >      }
> > 
> > +    if (dc->unpluggable && !dc->unpluggable(dev, errp)) {
> 
> I think I'd prefer something like "unplug_is_blocked" or so. Makes it
> more obvious that this is something that is rather the exception. 
> 

It makes sense indeed. I'll do that for next version.

> > +        return;
> > +    }
> > +
> >      qdev_hot_removed = true;
> > 
> >      hotplug_ctrl = qdev_get_hotplug_handler(dev);