Re: [PATCH 3/4] hw/arm/stellaris: Add missing QOM 'machine' parent

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 19:03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> QDev objects created with qdev_new() need to manually add
> their parent relationship with object_property_add_child().
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>  hw/arm/stellaris.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm/stellaris.c b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> index 284b95005f..bb88b3ebde 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/stellaris.c
> @@ -1247,10 +1247,13 @@ static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, 
> stellaris_board_info *board)
>                                     &error_fatal);
>
>              ssddev = qdev_new("ssd0323");
> +            object_property_add_child(OBJECT(ms), "oled", OBJECT(ssddev));
>              qdev_prop_set_uint8(ssddev, "cs", 1);
>              qdev_realize_and_unref(ssddev, bus, &error_fatal);
>
>              gpio_d_splitter = qdev_new(TYPE_SPLIT_IRQ);
> +            object_property_add_child(OBJECT(ms), "splitter",
> +                                      OBJECT(gpio_d_splitter));
>              qdev_prop_set_uint32(gpio_d_splitter, "num-lines", 2);
>              qdev_realize_and_unref(gpio_d_splitter, NULL, &error_fatal);
>              qdev_connect_gpio_out(
> @@ -1287,6 +1290,7 @@ static void stellaris_init(MachineState *ms, 
> stellaris_board_info *board)
>          DeviceState *gpad;
>
>          gpad = qdev_new(TYPE_STELLARIS_GAMEPAD);
> +        object_property_add_child(OBJECT(ms), "gamepad", OBJECT(gpad));
>          for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(gpad_keycode); i++) {
>              qlist_append_int(gpad_keycode_list, gpad_keycode[i]);
>          }
> --

We create almost all the devices in this board with
qdev_new(), and we don't use object_property_add_child()
on any of them. What is it about these three devices in
particular that means we need to call that function?

thanks
-- PMM