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| author | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> | 2014-01-09 11:24:48 -0800 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@amazon.com> | 2014-01-09 11:24:48 -0800 |
| commit | c06f13c6da306180e9531114570d7800357f7446 (patch) | |
| tree | a5a23cfdc9de3e5e86fd0e7deef0e43add66b39b /include/hw/qdev-properties.h | |
| parent | 666eb032d34961a06713049c56361179903527e4 (diff) | |
| parent | 11c308b17a34932033cceca4f88b5e67009e3ebd (diff) | |
| download | qemu-c06f13c6da306180e9531114570d7800357f7446.tar.gz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'afaerber/tags/qom-devices-for-anthony' into staging
QOM infrastructure fixes and device conversions
* QOM interface fixes and unit test
* Device no_user sanitization and documentation
* Device error reporting improvement
* Conversion of APIC, ICC, IOAPIC to QOM realization model
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* afaerber/tags/qom-devices-for-anthony: (24 commits)
qdev-monitor: Improve error message for -device nonexistant
ioapic: QOM'ify ioapic
ioapic: Cleanup for QOM'ification
icc_bus: QOM'ify ICC
apic: QOM'ify APIC
apic: Cleanup for QOM'ification
qdev: Drop misleading qbus_free() function
qom: Detect bad reentrance during object_class_foreach()
tests: Test QOM interface casting
qom: Do not register interface "types" in the type table and fix names
qom: Split out object and class caches
qdev: Document that pointer properties kill device_add
hw: cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet due to pointer props
qdev-monitor: Avoid device_add crashing on non-device driver name
qdev: Do not let the user try to device_add when it cannot work
isa: Clean up use of cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet
vt82c686: Clean up use of cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet
piix3 piix4: Clean up use of cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet
ich9: Document why cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet
pci-host: Consistently set cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/hw/qdev-properties.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/hw/qdev-properties.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-properties.h b/include/hw/qdev-properties.h index 692f82e935..77c6f7c037 100644 --- a/include/hw/qdev-properties.h +++ b/include/hw/qdev-properties.h @@ -122,8 +122,25 @@ extern PropertyInfo qdev_prop_arraylen; #define DEFINE_PROP_PCI_DEVFN(_n, _s, _f, _d) \ DEFINE_PROP_DEFAULT(_n, _s, _f, _d, qdev_prop_pci_devfn, int32_t) +/* + * Please avoid pointer properties. If you must use them, you must + * cover them in their device's class init function as follows: + * + * - If the property must be set, the device cannot be used with + * device_add, so add code like this: + * |* Reason: pointer property "NAME-OF-YOUR-PROP" *| + * DeviceClass *dc = DEVICE_CLASS(class); + * dc->cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet = true; + * + * - If the property may safely remain null, document it like this: + * |* + * * Note: pointer property "interrupt_vector" may remain null, thus + * * no need for dc->cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet = true; + * *| + */ #define DEFINE_PROP_PTR(_n, _s, _f) \ DEFINE_PROP(_n, _s, _f, qdev_prop_ptr, void*) + #define DEFINE_PROP_CHR(_n, _s, _f) \ DEFINE_PROP(_n, _s, _f, qdev_prop_chr, CharDriverState*) #define DEFINE_PROP_STRING(_n, _s, _f) \ |