BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> writes: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> BALATON Zoltan <bala...@eik.bme.hu> writes: >>> To me it looks like device code can't really set a globally unique >>> name on creating the bus without getting some help from upper >>> levels. So maybe naming busses should be done by qdev (or whatever is >>> handling this) instead of passing the name as an argument to >>> qbus_create or only use that name as a unique component within the >>> device and append it to a unique name for the device. >> >> Have you read the whole thread? qdev does come up with a name when > > No I haven't. This just got my attention because I'm responsible for > adding ati-vga.ddc and sm501.i2c and some ppc440 stuff so I was > wondering what could I do better bur otherwise I did not check the > whole thread so just ignore what I said if it's not useful in this > context.
I wouldn't call it "not useful". What you could do better in future code: pass a null bus name. This is not obvious. As Peter noted "we created a family of easy-to-misuse APIs". [...]
