[PATCH 00/18] qapi/qom: QAPIfy object-add

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/12/20 11:38, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 02.12.2020 um 10:30 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
>> On 01/12/20 23:08, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>>> Properties are only a useful concept if they have a use.  If
>>>> -object/object_add/object-add can do the same job without properties,
>>>> properties are not needed anymore.
>>>
>>> Do you mean "not needed for -object anymore"?  Properties are
>>> still used by internal C code (esp. board code),
>>> -device/device_add, -machine, -cpu, and debugging commands (like
>>> "info qtree" and qom-list/qom-get/qom-set).
>>
>> Yes.
> 
> Are internal uses mostly just right after object creation, or do we make
> a lot of use of them during runtime?

Not "a lot" but enough to be nasty.  There are a couple uses of 
"well-known" QOM properties (e.g. to access the RTC time or the balloon 
stats), plus "info qtree".

Paolo