Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/16] qom: add QObject-based property get/set wrappers

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/02/2012 08:06 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I don't want object.h to have a dependency on QObject.  We need to phase
> out QObject.

The header doesn't.

> Couple things:
>
> 1) We shouldn't use generic interfaces to read/write properties from
> objects. We should use type-safe accessors provided by the types
> themselves.
>
> 2) If we want to get fancy, we can add property_set_int, etc. and then
> implement (1) via header files that just call these functions.

That's what patch 5 does.  But writing visitors in C is a royal PITA. 
The only sane way to do so is via QObject.

Paolo