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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-mach
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-machine" suffix |
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Fri, 21 Aug 2015 12:23:01 +0200 |
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:54:26 -0700
Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> The machine class names in QEMU are not consistent today. Some of them use the
> "-machine" suffix, but some use completely different naming conventions. This
> makes it difficult to implement machine class lookup without iterating through
> the whole list of machine classes.
>
> This series changes all machines to use "<machine name>-machine" as the class
> name, so we can simply use object_class_by_name() in the future to lookup
> machine classes. (This was not done yet because it will also require some
> changes in the way aliases are handled.)
I've played around with the s390 machines a bit and it seems to do the
right thing using the same commandlines as before.
One question: info qom-tree shows the new machine class names - is
there anybody (other than a human looking at it) making use of that
information?
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] arm: Rename virt machine class to use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/10] arm: Rename virt machine class to use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] s390-virtio: Rename machine class name to use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/10] machine: Ensure all TYPE_MACHINE subclasses have the right suffix, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/10] mac99: Use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME to encode class name, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/10] s390: Rename s390-ccw-virtio-2.4 class name to use MACHINE_TYPE_NAME, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] machine: Set MachineClass::name automatically, Eduardo Habkost, 2015/08/20
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-machine" suffix,
Cornelia Huck <=