On 03/07/2014 10:44 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 05.03.2014 18:30, schrieb Marcel Apfelbaum:
>> In order to allow attaching machine options to a machine instance,
>> current_machine is converted into MachineState.
>> As a first step of deprecating QEMUMachine, some of the functions
>> were modified to return MachineCLass.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <marce...@redhat.com>
>
> Looks mostly good, but same issue as Alexey's patch: We are risking
> qdev_get_machine() creating a Container-typed /machine node.
Sorry, I am not following you here. object_resolve_path() can create objects?
> What about the following on top?
>
> Alexey, if we reach agreement here, this means for you that we can just
> use type_register_static() in place of qemu_machine_register() to
> register your custom machine type with interface added.
I am perfectly fine with that, I just do not see what difference does it
make and why do you still keep qemu_machine_register() (or this is in the
plan already?)?
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
> diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
> index b6deebd..749c83a 100644
> --- a/hw/core/qdev.c
> +++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
> @@ -861,7 +861,8 @@ Object *qdev_get_machine(void)
> static Object *dev;
>
> if (dev == NULL) {
> - dev = container_get(object_get_root(), "/machine");
> + dev = object_resolve_path("/machine", NULL);
> + g_assert(dev);
> }
>
> return dev;
>
>
--
Alexey
