Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Introduce module API to QEMU

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > Hmm, this raises annother issue - we've got to be extremely careful 
> > > about ordering. It's not inconcievable that the PCI support code 
> > > would have constructors (e.g. to register a PCI bus type).
> > >   
> >
> > Looks like constructor/destructor has explicit support for ordering.  
> > Neat.
>
> I'd avoid it.  Have the constructor do a *pci_module_table++ = blah 
> and iterate through that later.

Yup, came to that conclusion too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I prefer to have the code explicit somewhere rather than gobs of 
> unportable magic.  Use it where you have to, but not elsewhere.