On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > The object argument is currently unused and may be used to optimize the > class lookup when needed. > > Inspired-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> > Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwa...@xilinx.com> One minor nit about comments below but im happy as is. Thanks. > --- > include/qom/object.h | 10 ++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h > index 23fc048..a8e71dc 100644 > --- a/include/qom/object.h > +++ b/include/qom/object.h > @@ -511,6 +511,16 @@ struct TypeInfo > OBJECT_CLASS_CHECK(class, object_get_class(OBJECT(obj)), name) > > /** > + * OBJECT_GET_PARENT_CLASS: > + * @obj: The object to obtain the parent class for. > + * @name: The QOM typename of @obj. This is actually a little more complicated than this comment suggests. You are actually obtaining the parent class of @name for use by object@ obj. @name only needs to be an ancestor of @obj's concrete type and not necessarily the concrete class. Regards, Peter > + * > + * Returns the parent class for a given object of a specific class. > + */ > +#define OBJECT_GET_PARENT_CLASS(obj, name) \ > + object_class_get_parent(object_class_by_name(name)) > + > +/** > * InterfaceInfo: > * @type: The name of the interface. > * > -- > 1.8.1.4 > >