Am 11.01.2011 09:53, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> Actually, there is already a channel to pass pointers to qdev devices: >> the pointer property hack. I'm not sure we should contribute to its user >> base or take the chance for a cleanup, but we are not alone with this >> requirement. Point below remains valid, though. > > It is considered bad/hackish style as you can't create that kind of > devices using the -device command line switch (or from a machine > description config file some day in the future).
That kind of instantiation wouldn't be possible for device models that require someone actively passing kvm_state to them... > So we should not add > more uses of this, especially not in patches which are supposed to > cleanup things ;) You won't see me disagree. Jan
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