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

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 10:33, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > 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!
>
> Nice?  *Awesome*!
>
> > Well, maybe that sounds a bit wrong, but the syntax that was broken was
> > problematic and more of a hack,
>
> A monstrosity, in my opinion.  I tried to strangle it in the crib, but
> its guardians wouldn't let me.  Can dig up references for the morbidly
> curious.

I don't care about the syntax on the command line much (AFAIK that's
just the rocker device). But the actual feature is used more widely
within QEMU itself for devices created in C code, which is what it
was intended for. If you want to get rid of it you need to provide
an adequate replacement.

-- PMM