On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 13:28, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org> wrote: > Well, this is not an usable device but a part of a bigger device, > so here we want the opposite: not list this device in any category. > > Maybe we could add a DEVICE_CATEGORY_COMPOSITE for all such QOM > types so management apps can filter them out? (And so we are sure > all QOM is classified). > > Thomas, you already dealt with categorizing devices in the past, > what do you think about this? Who else could help? Maybe add > someone from libvirt in the thread?
If we could get to the point where we can assert() that dc->categories is non-zero in class init, we would be able to avoid further "forgot to categorize device" bugs getting into the tree in future, which seems like an argument for having some way of marking "really just an implementation detail" devices I guess? thanks -- PMM
