On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 07:58:56AM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:30:37AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 07:40:15PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote: > > > From: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com> > > > > I think this needs some kind of rationale. > > > > Since with this patch it is called immediately before ->init, I'm not > > really seeing the point of this. > > Many machines already override ->init, so if we want to move code > from vl.c into machine methods, but be sure that they run it now, > then we have to invent a pre-init. I (or Igor) can add something > like that to the commit message for the next round.
If we just want to move vl.c code into machine, why not just create a simple machine_pre_init() function? We can add a virtual method that can be reimplemented by subclasses later, only when we really see the need for a subclass to override some behavior. -- Eduardo
