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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Pointer properties and device_add
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Marcel Apfelbaum |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Pointer properties and device_add |
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Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:26:55 +0200 |
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 21:51 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 02.12.2013 09:52, schrieb Marcel Apfelbaum:
> > On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 16:14 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >> The alternative BTW is dropping all those pointer properties and
> >> replacing them with link<> properties. Paolo tried that for the OMAP
> >> timers once but I fear that series was never picked up...?
> > I heard about these link<> properties, can someone point me to their
> > implementation?
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> Start from object_property_add_link().
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> link<foo> properties represent a cross-reference to an object of type
> foo, which is representated as a pointer in C and as a textual canonical
> path representation in QMP. By contrast we model child<foo> properties
> as value fields (cf. SoC/MPCore modeling discussions) and they actually
> form the canonical paths used by link<> properties.
Thanks Andreas!
Marcel
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> Regards,
> Andreas
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