On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 06:22:35PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 09/14/2015 11:41 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> >The sPAPRDRConnector pseudo-device contains an owner field which is
> >set in spapr_dr_connector_new(). However, that function also calls
> >object_property_add_child() to set the DRConnector as the QOM child of
> >the owner object. That means that owner is always the same as the QOM
> >parent, and so redundant.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> >---
> > hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c | 5 ++---
> > include/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.h | 1 -
> > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> >index 9ce844a..68e0c3e 100644
> >--- a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> >+++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> >@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static void realize(DeviceState *d, Error **errp)
> > child_name = object_get_canonical_path_component(OBJECT(drc));
> > DPRINTFN("drc child name: %s", child_name);
> > object_property_add_alias(root_container, link_name,
> >- drc->owner, child_name, &err);
> >+ OBJECT(drc)->parent, child_name, &err);
> > if (err) {
> > error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
> > error_free(err);
> >@@ -456,7 +456,6 @@ sPAPRDRConnector *spapr_dr_connector_new(Object *owner,
> >
> > drc->type = type;
> > drc->id = id;
> >- drc->owner = owner;
> > object_property_add_child(owner, "dr-connector[*]", OBJECT(drc), NULL);
>
>
> The comment for object_property_add_child() in include/qom/object.h says:
>
> ===
> * There is no way for a child to determine what its parent is. It is not
> * a bidirectional relationship. This is by design.
> ===
>
> This part always confused me as there is "Object *parent" in the "struct
> Object". So there is way to determine but it must not be used? Is it debug
> only?
>
> Anyway, all members of the Object class are under /*< private >*/ so they
> should not be accesses in sPAPR code, I believe.
Ah, good point, I missed that. I guess we have to keep the owner
field, redundant though it seems. Blech.
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