Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 19/19] virtio-mmio: Remove user_creatable flag

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 04/01/17 02:46, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> virtio-mmio needs to be wired and mapped by other device or board
> code, and won't work with -device. Remove the user_creatable flag
> from the device class.
> 
> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> Cc: Shannon Zhao <zhaoshenglong@huawei.com>
> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c
> index b595512a3d..5807aa87fe 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c
> @@ -450,11 +450,6 @@ static void virtio_mmio_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data)
>      dc->reset = virtio_mmio_reset;
>      set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC, dc->categories);
>      dc->props = virtio_mmio_properties;
> -    /*
> -     * FIXME: Set only for compatibility on q35 machine-type.
> -     * Probably never meant to be user-creatable
> -     */
> -    dc->user_creatable = true;
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo virtio_mmio_info = {
> 

Possible addition to the commit message: a reference to commit
587078f0ed63 ("hw/arm/virt: explain device-to-transport mapping in
create_virtio_devices()", 2015-02-05).

That's another example showing that board code has to participate in
virtio-mmio transport placement.

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>