[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] Introduce CharDriverState qdev property type

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 07/21/09 17:23, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Would you have a property type that was basically a char driver state
> > > name?
> >
> > Yes. Same for drives and others. A generic string property should do I
> > think.
>
> Couldn't a struct pointer be used for that though? It can still be
> exposed as a string to the user.

Hmm, didn't think about that possibility.  Somehow makes sense as it 
would move the lookup-by-name into generic code (i.e. 
qemu_prop_chardev->parse).

Not sure what qdev_prop_set_chrdev() should accept then.  struct 
pointer?  string?

cheers,
  Gerd