Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Make "hotplugged" property read-only

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 17:10:15 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

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> 
> On 03/01/2017 15:22, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> I didn't know that. Is this documented somewhere?
> >> Is it actually used by any existing software?
> > not that I know of. But users should be fixed if they are not using it.
> > 
> > I see. The problem is that the mechanism is undocumented,
> > untested, and seems very likely to trigger bugs in device code.
> 
> I agree.  Why can't hotplugged be migrated?
It's probably not migrated because of it's not runtime/guest modified
state so we don't have to migrate it as it's know in advance.

For now it should set manually on CLI (-device) with the rest of
hotplugged device properties.

> Paolo