Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 01/21] qom: Register QOM infrastructure early

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/02/2012 08:59 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> QOM TYPE_INTERFACE was registered with device_init(), whose
> constructors are executed rather late in vl.c's main().
>
> Rename the module init type from DEVICE to QOM and call it very early
> so that QOM can safely be used for machines and CPUs.
>
> device_init() is left for legacy types. New ones should use type_init().

There are no legacy device_init users.  Everything can (and should) be converted 
to type_init() and MODULE_INIT_QOM can be invoked very early.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori