On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > This becomes important when undoing realize's initializations is split > in two places (unrealize and exit). > > The way to fix this could be to split realize further into "alloc" (done > once) and "realize" (can be undone).
Or alloc + init ? > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > --- > include/hw/qdev-core.h | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h > index 46972f4..d840f06 100644 > --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h > +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h > @@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ struct VMStateDescription; > * object_initialize() in their own #TypeInfo.instance_init and forward the > * realization events appropriately. > * > + * Note that for now it is not possible to unrealize a device and then > + * re-realize it. While this may change in the future, it is a valid > + * assumption for now. > + * > * The @init callback is considered private to a particular bus > implementation > * (immediate abstract child types of TYPE_DEVICE). Derived leaf types set an > * "init" callback on their parent class instead. > -- > 1.8.3.1 >
