[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/4] GlobalProperty: Display warning about unused -global
Il 18/04/2014 11:21, Andreas Färber ha scritto: Improving this is greatly appreciated, thanks. Now, I can see two ways things can go wrong: a) Mistyping or later refactoring devices, or b) user typos or thinkos. And four ways to set globals: -global, config file (I hope?), legacy command line options (vl.c) and machine .compat_props. If a property does not exist on the instance of an existing type, object_property_parse() will raise an Error and we will abort in device_post_init(). What we are silently missing is if a type is misspelled; for that we can probably add an Error **errp to the two qdev_prop_register_global*() functions - assuming QOM types are already registered at that point. qom-test would help us catch any such mistake by instantiating each machine. Even then, I suspect sooner or later machines other than PC and Q35 will be versioned. At that point we'll probably want QEMU-global compat_props that automatically apply to all machines, even if a type is not missing. I think we should already approximate this behavior by allowing machine .compat_props where the type doesn't exist. Paolo I note that your proposed check is not failing, but still, with hot-add of e.g. PCI devices we might well get a global property default for a type that is not instantiated immediately but possibly used later on. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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