Re: [Qemu-devel] QOM: Can devices having link properties be user-creatable?

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 October 2018 at 13:47, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden> wrote:
> While looking at Mao's series
> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-10/msg02519.html) I
> wondered if devices having link properties can be user-creatable.
>
> Using the following patch (I don't think this is correct to put qdev
> code into qobject, but I used this as PoC):
>
> -- >8 --
> diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
> index 547dcf97c3..2dd3a25531 100644
> --- a/qom/object.c
> +++ b/qom/object.c
> @@ -16,4 +16,5 @@
>  #include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
>  #include "qemu/cutils.h"
> +#include "qemu/error-report.h"
>  #include "qapi/visitor.h"
>  #include "qapi/string-input-visitor.h"
> @@ -1662,4 +1663,11 @@ void object_property_add_link(Object *obj, const
> char *name,
>      gchar *full_type;
>      ObjectProperty *op;
> +    ObjectClass *klass = object_get_class(obj);
> +
> +    if (klass && object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_DEVICE) &&
> +                 DEVICE_CLASS(klass)->user_creatable == false) {
> +        warn_report("Device type '%s' is user_creatable "
> +                    "(linked property: '%s')", type, name);
> +    }
>
>      prop->child = child;
> ---
>
> I get:
>
> $ aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt
> qemu-system-aarch64: warning: Device type 'bus' is user_creatable
> (linked property: 'parent_bus')
> qemu-system-aarch64: warning: Device type 'qemu:memory-region' is
> user_creatable (linked property: 'memory')

Is your warning printing the wrong thing? "bus", "irq",
etc don't seem like names of devices...

I think whether a device with a link property is
user creatable might depend on what the property is
for and whether the device has a useful fallback for
"link not connected".

thanks
-- PMM