Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: device capabilities

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Look at patch #5 (watchdogs).  What else do you suggest here?
> There is nothing which can be used to identify the device as watchdog.

That's a problem with the watchdog timers.  The WatchdogTimerModel stuff 
really replicates qdev functionality.

Ideally, the watchdog_list would go away and we would just make 
-watchdog an alias for -device.  Instead of having a global watchdog 
action, we should have a watchdog frontend/backend and allow a user to 
specify the action for a watchdog backend.  This is basically what 
-watchdog-action does.

The current command line options assume one global watchdog.  I don't 
see why we shouldn't support two though.  Even if we limited ourselves 
to one, it should use the same infrastructure as everything else.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori