On 25 September 2017 at 16:19, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > Not sure whether this works for the virtio-xxx-device devices, > though, since they are marked as user_creatable = true currently...
That's deliberate -- for the arm boards with virtio-mmio the board creates a bunch of virtio-mmio transports and the virtio-foo-device can be user created to plug into those. If overall trying to do the 'right thing' is tricky here then perhaps we can start by flipping the default to not-hotpluggable and marking some devices hotpluggable that in theory shouldn't be with a comment about why. Incidentally I think there's still some advantage in the "created as part of some other device" devices having to be explicitly marked hotpluggable, because those devices do still need some specific code in them to handle it (ie code to release the resources that are created in the device's realize method). thanks -- PMM
