Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/10] Fix machine class names to use the "-machine" suffix

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:54:26 -0700
> Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > The machine class names in QEMU are not consistent today. Some of them use 
> > the
> > "-machine" suffix, but some use completely different naming conventions. 
> > This
> > makes it difficult to implement machine class lookup without iterating 
> > through
> > the whole list of machine classes.
> > 
> > This series changes all machines to use "<machine name>-machine" as the 
> > class
> > name, so we can simply use object_class_by_name() in the future to lookup
> > machine classes. (This was not done yet because it will also require some
> > changes in the way aliases are handled.)
> 
> I've played around with the s390 machines a bit and it seems to do the
> right thing using the same commandlines as before.
> 
> One question: info qom-tree shows the new machine class names - is
> there anybody (other than a human looking at it) making use of that
> information?

I don't believe anybody is using it. It would be possible to use the
class name for something useful if machines were user-creatable objects,
but they aren't.

-- 
Eduardo