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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qom/object.h: remove some child/
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Peter Crosthwaite |
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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qom/object.h: remove some child/parent doc |
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Fri, 4 Sep 2015 14:53:31 -0700 |
On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Marc-André Lureau
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Peter Crosthwaite
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:01 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> From: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> It looks like this documentation is obsolete: a child object may lookup
>>> its parent stored in the Object struct.
>>>
>>
>> Using a function wrapper or direct access to Object structure field?
>
> By direct access to the struct field.
>
>>
>> The latter would indicate they are workarounds. Which legit uses of
>> parent identification are you referring to?
>
> I am not saying this is legit or not to use this field, it's just
> wrong documentation to me: the relationship is bidirectionnal. That's
> one of the few differences with the link<> properties.
>
It is biderctional for the implementation but not for the QOM API. I
think the comment is correct as long as there is no exposed API to do
this.
Regards,
Peter
> regards
>
> --
> Marc-André Lureau