Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> writes: > On 05/24/10 14:32, Paul Brook wrote: >>> +int is_ioport_assigned(pio_addr_t addr) >> >> Shouldn't we move this into register_ioport_{read,write}, and have that fail >> if the port has already been assigned? > > It already checks and fails with hw_error(). Problem with that is > that this kills qemu in case you try to pci hot-plug a vga card. So > I've added a way to check before-hand, so we can fail gracefully in > the few places where we need it (see second patch of the series).
If we needed in more than a few places, then a solution like the one we adopted for qdev_init() could make sense: have register_ioport_FOO() return an error, convert all users that don't want to check it to register_ioport_FOO_nofail(), which hw_error()s out.