Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] test-vmstate: add test case to verify we don't change VMState

[Peter Maydell]

On 23 March 2011 14:52, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think we ought to merge VMStateDescription into DeviceInfo.  For
> compatibility, we probably need a vmstate_alias name since the device names
> don't always map 1-1 with the qdev names.  But this should eliminate the
> problem of reusing VMStateDescriptions for multiple devices.

That's a feature, not a bug. Consider eg hw/pl110.c -- there
are two different DeviceInfo devices but since the underlying
implementation is the same you definitely don't want to have
two separate VMStateDescription structures to get out of sync.

-- PMM