Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/8] i.MX: Implement a more complete version of the GPT timer.

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 26/06/2013 09:08, address@hidden ha scritto:
> For my own education, could you elaborate on the reason this is not a
> good change?

Quoting from http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/218078:

> The MemoryRegion name is free text that can be changed as desired and
> doesn't need to match the type name.
> 
> The TYPE_* constant serves to keep consistency between usages of the
> string literal but does not prohibit changing its value.
> 
> The VMStateDescription should thus not use the TYPE_* constant because
> it must not ever change for live migration. Renaming a type is a valid
> thing to do if there is no command line compatibility to keep (think
> board-level "xlnx.foo" -> "xlnx,foo").

Paolo