Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/16] qdev: make the non-legacy pci address property accept an integer

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/02/2012 02:19 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/02/2012 09:07 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini<address@hidden>
> >
> > Isn't this a compatibility breaker?
> >
> > Won't this break libvirt's usage of -device addr=0.2 ?
>
> Nope, the legacy property still keeps the dd.f format. This is only for QOM (and
> internal use by qdev).

Ah, I forgot we duplicate the properties here.

Since there is now a programmatic mapping between legacy properties types and 
non-legacy property types, could we remove the legacy properties that now have 
well behaved types and add some code to device_add to maintain compatibility?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo