[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] qdev: give all devices a canonical path

[Paolo Bonzini]

A strong limitation of QOM right now is that unconverted ports
(e.g. all...) do not give a canonical path to devices that are
part of the board.  This in turn makes it impossible to replace
PROP_PTR with a QOM link for example.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
---
 hw/qdev.c |   16 +++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
index ee21d90..f5c716e 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/qdev.c
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@ DeviceState *qdev_create(BusState *bus, const char *name)
     return dev;
 }
 
-DeviceState *qdev_try_create(BusState *bus, const char *name)
+DeviceState *qdev_try_create(BusState *bus, const char *type)
 {
     DeviceState *dev;
 
-    if (object_class_by_name(name) == NULL) {
+    if (object_class_by_name(type) == NULL) {
         return NULL;
     }
-    dev = DEVICE(object_new(name));
+    dev = DEVICE(object_new(type));
     if (!dev) {
         return NULL;
     }
@@ -152,6 +152,16 @@ int qdev_init(DeviceState *dev)
         qdev_free(dev);
         return rc;
     }
+
+    if (!OBJECT(dev)->parent) {
+        static int unattached_count = 0;
+        gchar *name = g_strdup_printf("device[%d]", unattached_count++);
+
+        object_property_add_child(container_get("/unattached"), name,
+                                  OBJECT(dev), NULL);
+        g_free(name);
+    }
+
     if (qdev_get_vmsd(dev)) {
         vmstate_register_with_alias_id(dev, -1, qdev_get_vmsd(dev), dev,
                                        dev->instance_id_alias,
-- 
1.7.9.1