Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qom: add helper macro DEFINE_TYPES()

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 12:08:02PM +0200, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> DEFINE_TYPES() will help to simplify following routine patterns:
> 
>  static void foo_register_types(void)
>  {
>     type_register_static(&foo1_type_info);
>     type_register_static(&foo2_type_info);
>     ...
>  }
> 
>  type_init(foo_register_types)
> 
> or
> 
>  static void foo_register_types(void)
>  {
>     int i;
> 
>     for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(type_infos); i++) {
>         type_register_static(&type_infos[i]);
>     }
>  }
> 
>  type_init(foo_register_types)
> 
> with a single line
> 
>  DEFINE_TYPES(type_infos)
> 
> where types have static definition which could be consolidated in
> a single array of TypeInfo structures.
> It saves us ~6-10LOC per use case and would help to replace
> imperative foo_register_types() there with declarative style of
> type registration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <address@hidden>

I will wait for 1 day or 2 before queueing it.

-- 
Eduardo