Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: > On 7 September 2015 at 17:40, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> writes: >> >>> Convert the pxa2xx_mmci device to be a sysbus device. > >>> +static Property pxa2xx_mmci_properties[] = { >>> + /* Note: pointer property 'drive' may remain NULL, thus no need >>> + * for dc->cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet = true; >>> + * Unfortunately this can't be a DEFINE_PROP_DRIVE, because >>> + * setting a 'drive' property results in a call to blk_attach_dev() >>> + * attaching the BlockBackend to this device; that then means that >>> + * the call in sd_init() to blk_attach_dev_nofail() which tries to >>> + * attach the BlockBackend to the SD card object aborts. >>> + */ >>> + DEFINE_PROP_PTR("drive", PXA2xxMMCIState, blk), >>> + DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(), >>> +}; >> >> As far as I can tell, this problem is an artifact of our interface to >> the common sd-card code, namely sd_init(). sd_init() was made for the >> pre-qdev world: it creates and completely initializes the common >> SDState. >> >> In qdev, we do this in three separate steps: create, set properties, >> realize. Split up sd_init(), and the problem should go away. > > Yes, but I don't really want to gate QOMification of mmc > controller devices on the more complicated problem of > QOMifying sd.c itself, especially since we already have several > QOMified mmc controllers...
Is serial.c QOMified? I don't think so, it's merely structured in a QOM-friendly way: typedef SerialState, realize helper serial_realize_core(), unrealize helper serial_exit_core(). If SerialState had more properties, we'd also need a macro to define them. I believe sd.c could be made like that, with not much effort.