On Thu, 9 Oct 2025 at 15:56, Markus Armbruster <[email protected]> wrote: > qdev introspection (device-list-properties) is like QOM type > introspection. I'm not sure why it exists.
It exists because it is the older of the two interfaces: device-list-properties was added in 2012, whereas qom-list-properties was only added in 2018. device-list-properties also does some device-specific sanitization that may or may not be helpful: it won't let you try it on an abstract base class, for instance, and it won't list "legacy-" properties. One problem you don't mention with QOM introspection is that we have no marking for whether properties are intended to be user-facing knobs, configurable things to be set by other parts of QEMU, or purely details of the implementation. thanks -- PMM
