Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: > The part of the documentation of DeviceClass that talks about instance_init > is partly wrong: instance_init() functions must not abort or exit, since > the function is also called during introspection of the device already.
I figure it was correct back when the comment was written. It's definitely wrong now. > So if a device calls exit() during its instance_init() function, QEMU > terminates unexpectedly if somebody tries to just have a look at the > interfaces from the device with "device_add xyz,help" or with the > "device-list-properties" QOM command. This should never happen. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
