On 13 November 2014 10:05, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On 12/11/2014 23:47, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 12 November 2014 22:25, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > The plan was to move [*] down into the devices. Devices that do not >> > need to arrayify properties (e.g. most qdev-ified devices) can then skip >> > the [*] and have nicer names. >> >> Qdev devices have array properties already via a different >> mechanism, right? (Did we have a plan to unify them somehow?) > > I've never looked into qdev array properties that much, actually.
qdev array properties work by: * user of the device sets the "len-myarray" property to n * this automatically causes the creation of properties "myarray[0]" through to "myarray[n-1]" and allocation of some memory to contain their values * user of the device can then set those properties on the device So you can use them to define properties which are variable-length arrays, rather than having to decide at build time how long the array could possibly be. -- PMM
