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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for hos
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model |
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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:58:55 +0200 |
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Il 27/03/2012 13:59, Zhi Yong Wu ha scritto:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Il 27/03/2012 11:06, Zhi Yong Wu ha scritto:
>>>>>>> +#define DEFINE_HOSTDEV_PROP_PEER(_n, _s, _f) \
>>>>>>> + DEFINE_HOSTDEV_PROP(_n, _s, _f, hostdev_prop_netdev,
>>>>>>> NetClientState*)
>>>>>
>>>>> This should be simply a link<NetDev> property.
>>> IMHO, i don't fully understand what link<NetDev> mean. What is the
>>> difference between it and Child<NetDev>. Can you elaborate this?
>>
>> link<NetDev> is a pointer to another object. child<NetDev> means that
> Where are link<NetDev> used?
The peer property needs to be one.
> what is relationship between the two objects?
A has a pointer to B.
> it represent the relation between bus object and device object?
We're talking about netdevs, bus and object does not matter here no?
> We will not convert -net to QOM, that is, we don't care -net nic.
As long as it works that's fine but...
> Moreover, -device has exposed network card info.
... this is extremely confused. Each NIC device has a NIC-type
NetClientState. If NetClientState is converted to QOM, all of its
instances should be QOM objects, including those owned by NICs.
>> 3) the network devices already support hotplug very well, so it's also
>> not too useful to do them first. Let's first do chardevs.
>
> We hope that -netdev options info can be configurated or changed
> purely via QOM, not command line.
Yes, but does it buy anything or it is just a nice exercise?
Paolo
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/9] QOM: qomify -netdev, zwu . kernel, 2012/03/26
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, zwu . kernel, 2012/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model,
Paolo Bonzini <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/27
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Paolo Bonzini, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, 陳韋任, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, Zhi Yong Wu, 2012/03/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/9] hostdev: introduce the infrastructure for host device model, 陳韋任, 2012/03/28