[Qemu-arm] [RFC PATCH 1/6] qom: introduce TypeInfo name aliases

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
---
 include/qom/object.h |  3 +++
 qom/object.c         | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h
index dc73d59660..5d6e8795d4 100644
--- a/include/qom/object.h
+++ b/include/qom/object.h
@@ -428,6 +428,8 @@ struct Object
  * TypeInfo:
  * @name: The name of the type.
  * @parent: The name of the parent type.
+ * @aliases: A list of alias names for the type. This should point to a static
+ *   array that's terminated with a zero filled element.
  * @instance_size: The size of the object (derivative of #Object).  If
  *   @instance_size is 0, then the size of the object will be the size of the
  *   parent object.
@@ -468,6 +470,7 @@ struct TypeInfo
 {
     const char *name;
     const char *parent;
+    const char **aliases;
 
     size_t instance_size;
     void (*instance_init)(Object *obj);
diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index c58c52d518..c532a8aa65 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -83,10 +83,15 @@ static GHashTable *type_table_get(void)
 
 static bool enumerating_types;
 
-static void type_table_add(TypeImpl *ti)
+static void type_table_add_with_key(TypeImpl *ti, const char *key_name)
 {
     assert(!enumerating_types);
-    g_hash_table_insert(type_table_get(), (void *)ti->name, ti);
+    g_hash_table_insert(type_table_get(), (void *)key_name, ti);
+}
+
+static void type_table_add(TypeImpl *ti)
+{
+    type_table_add_with_key(ti, ti->name);
 }
 
 static TypeImpl *type_table_lookup(const char *name)
@@ -137,6 +142,15 @@ static TypeImpl *type_register_internal(const TypeInfo 
*info)
     ti = type_new(info);
 
     type_table_add(ti);
+
+    if (info->aliases) {
+        int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; info->aliases[i]; i++) {
+            type_table_add_with_key(ti, info->aliases[i]);
+        }
+    }
+
     return ti;
 }
 
-- 
2.15.1