Hi On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:05 PM Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Making some global properties optional will let us simplify > compat code when a given property works on most (but not all) > subclasses of a given type. > > Device types will be able to opt out from optional compat > properties by simply not registering those properties. > > Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> > --- > Changes v2 -> v3: > * Don't ignore all errors, ignore property only if it doesn't > exist > > Changes v1 -> v2: > * (new patch) > > Note: the "An error is fatal for non-hotplugged devices [...]" > comment that appears in the diff scope is inaccurate, but I will > fix that in a separate patch because I don't want this to get > into the way of fixing the crash. > --- > include/hw/qdev-core.h | 3 +++ > qom/object.c | 3 +++ > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h > index bc014c1c9f..29874c8611 100644 > --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h > +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h > @@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ struct PropertyInfo { > /** > * GlobalProperty: > * @used: Set to true if property was used when initializing a device. > + * @optional: If set to true, GlobalProperty will be skipped without errors > + * if the property doesn't exist. > * > * An error is fatal for non-hotplugged devices, when the global is applied. > */ > @@ -258,6 +260,7 @@ typedef struct GlobalProperty { > const char *property; > const char *value; > bool used; > + bool optional;
with optional/skip_if_missing Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> > } GlobalProperty; > > static inline void > diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c > index 4e5226ca12..b8c732063b 100644 > --- a/qom/object.c > +++ b/qom/object.c > @@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ void object_apply_global_props(Object *obj, const > GPtrArray *props, Error **errp > if (object_dynamic_cast(obj, p->driver) == NULL) { > continue; > } > + if (p->optional && !object_property_find(obj, p->property, NULL)) { > + continue; > + } > p->used = true; > object_property_parse(obj, p->value, p->property, &err); > if (err != NULL) { > -- > 2.18.0.rc1.1.g3f1ff2140 >