Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 06/11] pc-dimm: don't allow to access "size" before the device was realized

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 04:03:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.06.2018 14:56, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 14:16:50 +0200
> > David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >> "size" should not be queried before the device was realized. Let' make
> >> that explicit.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
> > It's generic property getter, it should work even before realize is called.
> 
> That's the point, as we can see in NVDIMM code , it is *not* a generic
> property getter.

If it were a writeable property, I would agree with Igor because
it would make it impossible to find out what's the default value
for the property.

As it's a read-only property, returning an error seems harmless.
Igor, why exactly do you think it's a problem?

-- 
Eduardo