From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcbVR-0000Mf-1l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:53:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZcbVN-0005RP-PT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:53:52 -0400 References: <1442194913-26545-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <1442194913-26545-2-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <55F683CB.6000508@ozlabs.ru> <20150914114503.GP2547@voom.fritz.box> <55F6B989.8010900@redhat.com> <55F6D479.4010301@ozlabs.ru> <55F6D897.1090100@redhat.com> <20150916031635.GY2547@voom.fritz.box> <20150917155053.27212.55263@loki> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55FAE204.8000403@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:53:40 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150917155053.27212.55263@loki> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFCv2 1/2] spapr: Remove unnecessary owner field from sPAPRDRConnector List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Roth , David Gibson Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com On 17/09/2015 17:50, Michael Roth wrote: > We still need globals for RTAS lookups. I think QOM is our most > mature/well-tested interface for managing inter-device > relationships/lookups, but I can understand if using > root_container/link seems off. To me it seem like a nice > "freebie" we get from using QOM, and gave us nice guarantees like > globally unique paths to correspond to globally unique DRC indexes. I think it's okay; but I don't really like looking at ->properties directly, without an API (which doesn't exist indeed). Paolo