Post-order is the only sensible direction for the reset signals. For example, suppose pre-order is used and the parent has some data structures that cache children state (for example a list of active requests). When the reset method is invoked on the parent, these caches cannot be left in a consistent state, nor asserted to be in a consistent state.
If post-order is used, on the other hand, these will be in a known state when the reset method is invoked on the parent. I checked the existing bus-reset implementation and they are all fine with post-order. USB doesn't use qdev reset, but it should be fine with post-order too. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- hw/qdev.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c index 457f7bf..833d571 100644 --- a/hw/qdev.c +++ b/hw/qdev.c @@ -227,12 +227,12 @@ static int qbus_reset_one(BusState *bus, void *opaque) void qdev_reset_all(DeviceState *dev) { - qdev_walk_children(dev, qdev_reset_one, qbus_reset_one, NULL, NULL, NULL); + qdev_walk_children(dev, NULL, NULL, qdev_reset_one, qbus_reset_one, NULL); } void qbus_reset_all(BusState *bus) { - qbus_walk_children(bus, qdev_reset_one, qbus_reset_one, NULL, NULL, NULL); + qbus_walk_children(bus, NULL, NULL, qdev_reset_one, qbus_reset_one, NULL); } void qbus_reset_all_fn(void *opaque) -- 1.8.0.2