Re: [PATCH 0/1] qom: fix setting of qdev array properties

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 5 Sept 2023 at 09:59, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Am 04.09.2023 um 18:25 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
> > By the time of the 8.2.0 release, it will have been 2 years and 6
> > releases since we accidentally broke setting of array properties
> > for user creatable devices:
> >
> >   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1090
>
> Oh, nice!
>
> Well, maybe that sounds a bit wrong, but the syntax that was broken was
> problematic and more of a hack, and after two years there is clearly no
> need to bring the exact same syntax back now.
>
> So I'd suggest we bring the funcionality back, but with proper QAPI
> lists instead of len-foo/foo[*].

I don't object, as long as somebody is proposing to actually
do this work (eg, in this release cycle), rather than merely
suggest the idea as a reason why we should continue to leave
this device's configurability broken...

thanks
-- PMM