Re: [Qemu-devel] What to do about non-qdevified devices?

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30 January 2013 07:02, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>> The problems I ran into were (1) this is a lot of work (2) it basically
>>> requires that all bus children have been qdev/QOM-ified.  Even with
>>> something like the ISA bus which is where I started, quite a few devices
>>> were not qdevified still.
>>
>> So what's the plan to complete the qdevification job?  Lay really low
>> and quietly hope the problem goes away?  We've tried that for about
>> three years, doesn't seem to work.
>
> Do we have a list of not-yet-qdevified devices? Maybe we need to
> start saying "fix X Y and Z or platform P is dropped from the next
> release". (This would of course be easier if we had a way to let users
> know that platform P was in danger...)

I think that's a good idea.  Only problem is identifying pre-qdev
devices in the code requires code inspection (grep won't do, I'm
afraid).

If we agree on a "qdevify or else" plan, I'd be prepared to help with
the digging up of devices.