On 1 May 2012 19:57, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > On 01/05/12 16:20, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>> Correctness is more important to me than brevity. >>> >>> And really, we should focus on killing things like i8259_init(). >> >> >> Functions like i8259_init() exist precisely because >> QOM/qdev don't provide brevity and people trying to >> use these devices do in fact value brevity. That's why >> I want the standard native "connect this thing to this >> other thing" function to be short and simple. > > > My understanding was that the *_init() functions were legacy and shouldn't > be used any more - at least I've started removing them and replacing them > with the slighty more long-winded QOM versions in my working tree.
Yes, that is my opinion and is why I'm arguing with Anthony here... -- PMM
