Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 27/28] sysbus: apic: ioapic: convert to QEMU Object Model

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-01-25 11:15, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/25/2012 09:37 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> >  They're exactly the same size (16 lines).  If you embed TypeInfo into
>>> >  DeviceTypeInfo, and introduce a Device specific type registration
>>> >  function, then you could do:
>>> >
>>> >  static DeviceTypeInfo my_device_type_info = {
>>> >       .type.name = TYPE_MY_DEVICE,
>>> >       .type.parent = TYPE_PARENT_DEVICE,
>>> >       .reset = my_device_reset,
>> And if you introduce some
>>
>> #define TYPE_UNIMPLEMENTED (void *)&dummy_variable
>>
>> you can easily express
>>
>> [.field = NULL]         =>  use parent
>>   .field = UNIMPLEMENTED =>  don't run any handler
>>
> 
> I agree with Anthony, this would get really ugly where you are calling
> the functions and doing the class initialization.

I think we need to try it first.

There is a lot of repetition, and that gets boring at beat and ugly at
worst when doing it for hundreds of devices - compared to the number of
base classes we will have.

>  It's a different
> style from what we're used to, granted, but the difference in code size
> is not relevant (not enough to introduce a level of macro magic, at
> least) and the diffstat in this series is misleading because qdev is
> left with temporary duplication for now.

I was looking at the final version Anthony pointed at.

Jan

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