From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Pratik Parvati" <pratikp@vayavyalabs.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: sysbus_create_simple Vs qdev_create
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:30:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200717163038.GQ244185@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200717162312.GR1274972@habkost.net>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:23:12PM -0400, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 07:10:57AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> > Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > > I'd also note that the use of "parent" in the code is also
> > > ambiguous. It can mean:
> > >
> > > * QOM parent type, i.e. TypeInfo.parent. Related fields:
> > > * parent_class members of class structs
> > > * parent_obj members of object structs
> >
> > I hate the use of "parent" and "child" for a super- / subtype relation.
> >
> > Correcting the terminology there would be short term pain for long term
> > gain. Worthwhile?
>
> I don't know. It looks like the terminology came from GObject.
One day I would love it if we got QOM to actually use GObject, so
from that POV I'd be inclined to stick with the "parent" term.
Personally I've not seen a problem with the term "parent" in
this scenario. The class inheritance metaphor maps reasonably
clearly to a parent/child metaphor.
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-17 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-14 16:09 sysbus_create_simple Vs qdev_create Pratik Parvati
2020-07-14 16:17 ` Pratik Parvati
2020-07-14 17:02 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-07-15 8:32 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-15 13:58 ` Pratik Parvati
2020-07-15 14:11 ` Peter Maydell
2020-07-15 14:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-16 22:21 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-17 5:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-17 16:23 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-17 16:30 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2020-07-17 17:15 ` Peter Maydell
2020-07-20 7:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-20 7:38 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-20 15:59 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-21 6:00 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-27 14:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-28 7:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-28 17:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-28 22:47 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-29 9:54 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-29 13:18 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-29 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-30 10:03 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-30 11:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-30 12:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2020-07-30 13:38 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-29 14:32 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-29 16:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-29 16:08 ` Eduardo Habkost
2020-07-29 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-07-29 7:46 ` Markus Armbruster
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