Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> writes: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 01:00:55PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: [...] >> I don't really understand the split here and the 'system' suffix really >> doesn't explain it for me. Could you at least add a comment to each of >> these files explaining what belongs in them? > > "system" here means "Code used only by qemu-system-*" (in other words, > not used by *-user, and not part of the qdev core). Do you have other > name suggestions? > > The goal here is to make qdev-core.c/qdev-properties as small as > possible (only what's absolutely required for the CPU classes), and put > everything else (that's only used by qemu-system-*) into > qdev-system.c/qdev-properties-system.c.
Creates a permanent if minor development burden: where should my property code go? Doubt it's worth the trouble: text data bss dec hex filename 15897 1448 0 17345 43c1 bld/hw/qdev-properties.o In theory, link-time optimizations can drop unused code. Not sure they do in practice.
