Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/14] qdev: don't allow globals to be set by bus name

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 01/05/2012 20:18, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> This is technically a compatibility breaker.  However:
> 
> 1) libvirt does not rely on this (it always uses the driver name)
> 
> 2) This behavior isn't actually documented anywhere (the docs just say 
> driver).
> 
> 3) I suspect there are less than three people on earth that even know this is
>    possible (minus the people reading this message).
> 
> So I think we can safely break it :-)

Does this work with compat properties set on a bus?  Even if it does,
perhaps it's better to avoid the cleverness and wait for my series that
moves bus properties to the appropriate abstract superclass.

Paolo