[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 5/7] add qdev property type "cpu"

[Paolo Bonzini]

> Hmm.  Parse method doesn't accept output of the print method.  Not so
> nice.  Is the "CPU #" decoration essential?

I noticed the same in parse/print string:

static int parse_string(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop, const char *str)
{
    char **ptr = qdev_get_prop_ptr(dev, prop);

    if (*ptr)
        qemu_free(*ptr);
    *ptr = qemu_strdup(str);
    return 0;
}

static int print_string(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop, char *dest, 
size_t len)
{
    char **ptr = qdev_get_prop_ptr(dev, prop);
    if (!*ptr)
        return snprintf(dest, len, "<null>");
    return snprintf(dest, len, "\"%s\"", *ptr);
}

It looks like printing representation is chosen "for the user", not for 
parsing.

Paolo