Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] qom: refactor Interfaces

[Peter Crosthwaite]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> The interface implementation was pretty busted.  The way it created Objects 
> for
> each interface was extremely clumbsy and brittle.
>
> This is a new implementation that does something quite a bit more natural.  It
> simply modifies classes such that they can affectively have more than one 
> super
> class.
>
> Interfaces never get instantiated.  Instead an object's class just refers to 
> its
> parent class and it's implemented interfaces.
>
> This should solve the issues Peter's run into

I will rebase my series on this and retest shortly.

Regards,
Peter

 and also eliminate the recursive
> call to object_new() (its no longer necessary to allocate anything when 
> creating
> an object).
>
> This also comes with a test case for object.
>
>