Marcel Apfelbaum <mar...@redhat.com> writes: > This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device' > by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag > before creating them. > > Devices like IOMMU need to be created before others, so they can leverage > the DeviceCreationPriority flag introduced by the first patch to DeviceClass. > > The second patch sorts the devices by their DeviceCreationPriority > before creating them. > > Finally, the last patch demonstrates how it can be used to ensure > the creation of host-bridges before the pci-bridges and pci-bridges before > the others. > > I preferred to combine all the priorities into a single enum > to better manage the creation order. > > This is an RFC because I only wanted to know if it seems like the right way > to go. > Comments are appreciated,
Can you explain why requiring the user to specify -device in a sane order isn't good enough?
