On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:59:53PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 21 February 2017 at 16:18, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 21/02/2017 14:57, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>> -global is a qdev thing. > >> ...which reminds me to ask: is there any hope for unifying > >> our properties so we don't have both "qdev properties" and > >> "qom properties" or are we doomed to two distinct sets of > >> APIs forever? > > > > We already have one set of property APIs in some sense. qdev properties > > *are* QOM properties; you visit them with object_property_foreach and so on. > > > > The extensions that qdev adds, and are exclusive to qdev properties, are > > the following: > > > > - defining properties via DEFINE_PROPERTY_* (qdev_property_add_static etc.) > > > > - defining default values with -global (global_props and a handful of > > functions that use it). > > ...I didn't realize -global only worked on qdev properties. > That's kind of awkward (but then -global syntax is awkward > in any case). What's the QOM equivalent?
-global work on any kind of QOM properties (qdev properties are registered as QOM properties). The only restriction is that it works only on TYPE_DEVICE subclasses. > > > - providing alternative human-readable formatting for info qtree > > (qdev_property_add_legacy) > > There's also a distinct set of functions for setting them: > qdev_prop_set_uint32() vs object_property_set_int(), etc. > These seem to be sometimes just wrappers (eg set_uint32), sometimes > wrappers with a little convenience functionality (eg set_macaddr), > and sometimes doing something more complex (eg set_enum, set_ptr). > > The effect at the board code level is that code for creating, > setting properties on and realizing qdev devices tends to look > very different from that for doing so for plain QOM objects > [qdev_create / qdev_prop_set* / qdev_init_nofail vs object_new / > object_property_set_* / object_property_set_bool(... "realized" ...) ] > > Can/should we just deprecate further use of the qdev_* APIs? I don't think we can, until we provide a QOM API that is as powerful and as easy to use as the DEFINE_PROP_* macros. This probably isn't as hard as it sounds: I believe the only thing forcing the existing DEFINE_PROP_* macros and PropertyInfo structs to be qdev-specific is the device->realized check inside the property setters. -- Eduardo