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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.
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Paul Brook |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support. |
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Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:13:54 +0100 |
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On Friday 10 July 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 07/10/09 11:46, Paul Brook wrote:
> >>> But we also
> >>> have to consider the case where a single device exposes multiple types
> >>> of capabilities.
> >>
> >> I think we already agreed to move to a bitmap model to handle that.
> >
> > I still think this is best done via properties, rather than as a separate
> > feature.
>
> Properties really don't fit here IMO. Property values belong to a
> device *instance*, not to a device *driver*. If you stick two e1000
> network cards into your virtual machine both instances will have
> different pci bus and mac addresses. They wouldn't have different
> device capabilities though.
No, but the presence of a mac address (or network backend) property tells you
that it's a network card.
Paul
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qdev/class: core, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] qdev/class: core, Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qdev/class: make pci_nic_init() use qdev's device list., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Anthony Liguori, 2009/07/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Paul Brook, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support.,
Paul Brook <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Gerd Hoffmann, 2009/07/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] qdev: add driver class support., Filip Navara, 2009/07/09