On Wed, 4 Aug 2021 at 21:40, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2021 at 01:19:14PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 at 19:01, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > When there's no specific class struct used for a QOM type, we
> > > normally don't define a typedef for it.  Remove the typedef from
> > > the minimal example, as it is unnecessary.

> > Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> >
> > though I agree with Daniel that in the long-term we should reverse
> > the structure of the documents so the recommended macros go first
> > and the behind-the-scenes boilerplate last.
>
> I agree 100%, and maybe I will give it a try later.
>
> My immediate goal was to just remove the examples in the docs
> where type checking macros were defined manually.  Since we
> introduced the new QOM helper macros, the number of OBJECT_CHECK
> macros in the QEMU tree almost doubled (from 40 in commit
> 8110fa1d94f2 to 75 in commit bccabb3a5d60).

Yeah, to be clear, I'm all in favour of changes like this patchset
and don't think we should hold them up because we have a theoretical
larger restructuring of the documentation we might one day (or never)
get round to.

-- PMM

Reply via email to