Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 01/10] net: add a new object netfilter

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 09:39:11AM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On 09/01/2015 10:36 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:06:14PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
> >>Add the framework for a new netfilter object and a new
> >>-netfilter CLI option as a basis for the following patches.
> >>Note that the new added document in qemu-options.hx indicate that
> >>there's a buffer filter. This type of filter will be implemented
> >>in the following patches.
> >
> >Adding Markus and Andreas for the command-line and QAPI perspective on
> >adding a new type of object to QEMU.
> 
> I think I've already addressed Markus's comment of QAPI part on v8 :)

QAPI is about mapping to C structs, I think the real question I'm
raising is whether QOM should be used to avoid duplicating an object
model, lifecycle, etc.

Stefan