It's still a long way until we'll have QAPIfied devices, but there are some improvements that we can already make now to make the future switch easier. One important part of this is having code paths without QemuOpts, which we want to get rid of and replace with the keyval parser in the long run. This series adds support for JSON syntax to -device, which bypasses QemuOpts. While we're not using QAPI yet, devices are based on QOM, so we already do have type checks and an implied schema. JSON syntax supported now can be supported by QAPI later and regarding command line compatibility, actually switching to it becomes an implementation detail this way (of course, it will still add valuable user-visible features like introspection and documentation). Apart from making things more future proof, this also immediately adds a way to do non-scalar properties on the command line. nvme could have used list support recently, and the lack of it in -device led to some rather unnatural solution in the first version (doing the relationship between a device and objects backwards) and loss of features in the following. With this series, using a list as a device property should be possible without any weird tricks. Unfortunately, even QMP device_add goes through QemuOpts before this series, which destroys any type safety QOM provides and also can't support non-scalar properties. This is a bug that is fixed during this series, but that is technically an incompatible change. A similar change was made for netdev_add in commit db2a380c84. libvirt needs to make sure that it actually always passes the right type, because passing a wrong type will start to fail after this series. I hope that libvirt already does things correctly, so this won't cause any trouble, but if it does, there is the option of using the QemuOpts-less code path only for JSON -device and going through a deprecation period for QMP device_add. Kevin Wolf (11): qom: Reduce use of error_propagate() iotests/245: Fix type for iothread property iotests/051: Fix typo qdev: Avoid using string visitor for properties qdev: Make DeviceState.id independent of QemuOpts qdev: Add Error parameter to qdev_set_id() qemu-option: Allow deleting opts during qemu_opts_foreach() qdev: Base object creation on QDict rather than QemuOpts qdev: Avoid QemuOpts in QMP device_add vl: Enable JSON syntax for -device Deprecate stable non-JSON -device and -object qapi/qdev.json | 15 +++-- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 ++++ include/hw/qdev-core.h | 10 ++-- include/monitor/qdev.h | 2 +- hw/arm/virt.c | 2 +- hw/core/qdev.c | 6 +- hw/net/virtio-net.c | 4 +- hw/pci-bridge/pci_expander_bridge.c | 2 +- hw/ppc/e500.c | 2 +- hw/vfio/pci.c | 4 +- hw/xen/xen-legacy-backend.c | 3 +- qom/object.c | 7 +-- qom/object_interfaces.c | 17 ++---- softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 90 +++++++++++++++++------------ softmmu/vl.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++--- util/qemu-option.c | 4 +- tests/qemu-iotests/051 | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/051.pc.out | 4 +- tests/qemu-iotests/245 | 4 +- 19 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) -- 2.31.1
