Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/5] qdev: Create qdev_get_dev_path()

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> > In fact what you really want to do is transfer the device tree
> > (including properties), and create the machine from scratch, not load
> > state into a pre-supplied device tree.
> 
> Well, I agree, but that's a lot more of an overhaul, and once again
> we're changing the problem.

I think it's you that's changing the problem.
The requirement is to uniquely identify a device within a machine.
Verifying that this device is that compatible with the device at the same 
address in a different machine is a separate problem. We should not be trying 
to encode this information in the canonical device path.

Paul
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