Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] spapr: allow creating devices with -device

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 05/24/2011 03:03 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >  This is particularly important with the conversion from scsi-disk
> >  to scsi-{cd,hd} that Markus made.  After his patches, if you
> >  specify a scsi-cd device attached to an if=none drive, the default
> >  VSCSI controller will not be created and, without qdevification,
> >  you will not be able to add yours.
>
> Really?  Hasn't that always been the case?

What hasn't always been the case? :)

1) "the default VSCSI controller will not be created" -- no, this is new 
with scsi-cd: scsi-disk never was on the default_driver_table in vl.c, 
as you said in the commit message for af6bf13 (defaults: ide-cd, ide-hd 
and scsi-cd devices suppress default CD-ROM, 2011-05-18).  In fact, I 
believe you could add scsi-hd there too.

2) "without qdevification, you will not be able to add yours" -- that of 
course has always been the case.  But I never noticed because there was 
no way to avoid creating the default CD-ROM, and this in turn forced the 
non-qdev-clean creation of the VSCSI controller.

Paolo