Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/5] qdev: add child alias properties

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 14/05/2014 15:27, Andreas Färber ha scritto:
> > > +PropertyInfo qdev_prop_child_alias = {
> > > +    .name  = "ChildAlias",
> Won't this turn into the QMP-exposed type of the property? That would be
> wrong then, requiring per-type alias property types. They could be
> macro-automated of course, if we need them.
>
> Paolo had cleaned up type names to match QAPI schema for 2.0, CC'ing.

Replying to this patch series has been on my todo list for a long time...

I think we should avoid making the ChildAlias property a qdev property. 
 This means redoing how "-device foo,help" works, so that it includes 
QOM properties as well.

Paolo