Am 10.08.2012 05:16, schrieb Peter A. G. Crosthwaite: > From: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > > The current implementation of Interfaces is poorly designed. Each interface > that an object implements ends up being an object that's tracked by the > implementing object. There's all sorts of gymnastics to deal with casting > between these objects. > > But an interface shouldn't be associated with an Object. Interfaces are > global > to a class. This patch moves all Interface knowledge to ObjectClass > eliminating > the relationship between Object and Interfaces. > > Interfaces are now abstract (as they should be) but this is okay. Interfaces > essentially act as additional parents for the classes and are treated as such. > > With this new implementation, we should fully support derived interfaces > including reimplementing an inherited interface. > > PC: Rebased against qom-next merge Jun-2012. > > PC: Removed replication of cast logic for interfaces, i.e. there is only > one cast function - object_dynamic_cast() (and object_dynamic_cast_assert()) > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Peter A. G. Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@petalogix.com> > Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
Anthony, didn't you have a whole series to refactor interfaces and add test cases? /-F -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
