qdev: give all devices a canonical path
A strong limitation of QOM right now is that unconverted ports
(e.g. all...) do not give a canonical path to devices that are
part of the board. This in turn makes it impossible to replace
PROP_PTR with a QOM link for example.
Reviewed-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
index ee21d90..f5c716e 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/qdev.c
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@
return dev;
}
-DeviceState *qdev_try_create(BusState *bus, const char *name)
+DeviceState *qdev_try_create(BusState *bus, const char *type)
{
DeviceState *dev;
- if (object_class_by_name(name) == NULL) {
+ if (object_class_by_name(type) == NULL) {
return NULL;
}
- dev = DEVICE(object_new(name));
+ dev = DEVICE(object_new(type));
if (!dev) {
return NULL;
}
@@ -152,6 +152,16 @@
qdev_free(dev);
return rc;
}
+
+ if (!OBJECT(dev)->parent) {
+ static int unattached_count = 0;
+ gchar *name = g_strdup_printf("device[%d]", unattached_count++);
+
+ object_property_add_child(container_get("/unattached"), name,
+ OBJECT(dev), NULL);
+ g_free(name);
+ }
+
if (qdev_get_vmsd(dev)) {
vmstate_register_with_alias_id(dev, -1, qdev_get_vmsd(dev), dev,
dev->instance_id_alias,
