Re: [PATCH 13/13] bcm2835_cprman: put some peripherals of bcm2835 cprman into the 'misc' category

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 05:41, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> > I'm really dubious of devices that directly inherit from
> > TYPE_DEVICE, because their reset method won't be automatically
> > called. In this case it looks like the TYPE_BCM2835_CPRMAN
> > device's reset method manually calls reset on these devices,
> > though, so it isn't actually buggy, just confusing.
>
> I guess this is a trap for unwary implementers, aggravated by our usual
> dearth of qdev documentation.  I can see ~100 .parent = TYPE_DEVICE
> lines.  Checking them all manually won't be fun.  Any automation ideas?
>
> The concept "bus-less device" is sane.  We used not to have it, and the
> resulting need for pseudo-busses was annoying enough to make us add
> bus-less devices.

Yeah, the problem really is that our reset handling remains a
mess. I'm not sure (a) what the right model for reset is and
(b) what would be a feasible transition plan to get from
here to there...

thanks
-- PMM