Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 9 February 2011 08:11, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> I've said this before: at some point in time (sooner rather than >>>> later, if you ask me), we need to shoot the stragglers. > >>> ...and my question is: where is the documentation on how to do >>> a good conversion of a device to qdev, how it works, what the >>> assumptions you can/can't make are, etc ? I can't see anything >>> relevant in the source tree or on the website, but maybe I'm just >>> looking in the wrong places... >> >> Unfortunately, you're not. > > It seems to me that if you want the maintainers of the random > oddball platforms and devices to do qdev conversion, this is > much more likely to happen if it's clearly documented how to > do it. Otherwise the only people who can do a good qdev > conversion are the people who care about qdev and it has > to be their responsibility to convert everybody over... I regret the lack of proper qdev documentation as much as anyone. For what it's worth, the lone file on qdev in doc/ bears my fingerprints. Still, it's difficult for me to second-guess the original designer. Yes, it's quite fair to ask the folks calling for qdevification (read: *me*) to support that with better documentation. But I think it's also fair to ask the man who designed qdev and has been so critical much of its use (read: Paul) to provide a bit more guidance. Paul, please? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
