Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] hw/arm/bcm283x: Fix crash with device_add bcm2837 on unsupported machines

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/07/2018 08:50, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> Yuck. The real problem here is that we're still requiring the
>>> code that creates these QOM devices to manually set the parent
>>> in the first place. It's not surprising that we don't get it right
>>> (either parenting in the wrong place or not at all). I'd much
>>> rather see us fix that properly than keep papering over places
>>> where we get it wrong.
>> Sorry, I'm still not an expert in all this QOM stuff yet ... so what do
>> you exactly recommend to do instead?
> I'm not clear either, but I don't think that what we're
> currently doing can be right.

Well, in theory it should work...  I sent the expected flow in another email.

Paolo