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Berrange" , Eduardo Habkost , Alistair Francis , QEMU Developers , qemu-arm , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , Paolo Bonzini , Fred Konrad , KONRAD Frederic Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Peter Maydell writes: > On Tue, 19 May 2020 at 06:09, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> I figure the "device becomes real only on realize" thing is actually >> more myth than thing. > > It's not a myth, it's an API guarantee thing. If you don't realize > the device you create before you use it then you're in the world of > unspecified behaviour, and anything could happen: maybe it works, > maybe it doesn't, maybe it works today and breaks tomorrow. It's a myth in the sense "we want it to be that way, but it often ain't" :) Of course your right in that it is also a case of "use the interface the specified way, or else".