Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] mc146818rtc: add "rtc" link to "/machine"

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 17/06/2014 19:38, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> Am 17.06.2014 19:30, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> > Il 17/06/2014 19:09, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> > > Or at least give the
> > > "rtc" node a more generic property type for ABI stability? I.e. you only
> > > want "date" here, not any other properties of the mc146818rtc.
> >
> > The idea is to make a few selected properties "well-known" and link to
> > them via aliases, in this case "date" from "/machine/rtc" is the
> > well-known property.
>
> Now I'm confused. Then why not just alias "date" onto /machine?

Because we hadn't thought of it? :)  If that's fine for you, all the 
better.  So rtc.date would be aliased as "/machine.rtc_date".  Works for me.

Paolo