"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 03:52:27PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> I posted this series as RFC back in October, but it depended on >> patches then still under review, so I put it aside, and promptly >> forgot. Fortunately, rebasing and updating it wasn't much trouble. >> >> While discussing Gonglei's "[PATCH v2 00/19] usb: convert device init >> to realize", Paolo called the PCI conversion job "Gargantuan". This >> series attempts to crack it into manageable jobs. >> >> The basic idea comes from qdev core: have the core deal with just >> realize, but default the device models' realize() method to one that >> calls the old init() method. Unconverted device models don't set >> their realize(), thus get one that calls their init(). We can then >> convert device by device instead of having to convert of all of PCI in >> one Gargantuan go. >> >> Since PCI's exit() cannot fail, I chose not to add an unrealize(). >> Precedence: USBDeviceClass method handle_destroy(), called on USB >> unrealize. >> >> Aside: USBDeviceClass also has an unrealize() method, but it's never >> set and never called. >> >> PATCH 01 converts the interface between PCI core and qdev to realize. >> >> PATCH 02 adds realize to the interface between PCI core and PCI device >> models. Once all device models are converted to realize, the old init >> interface can be dropped, completing the Gargantuan job. >> >> PATCH 03-04 convert device models that cannot fail initialization. >> >> PATCH 05-10 convert a few that can fail, but are really easy to >> convert. > > As you posted the test RFC now, I applied this in my tree.
Thanks :) > Pls do complete the test though, we need this upstream. Sure!
