On 02/21/2014 01:05 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 20/02/2014 15:03, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>> On 02/21/2014 12:55 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>> Il 20/02/2014 14:50, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>> As suffixes do not make sense for sPAPR's device tree and
>>>> there is no way to filter them out on the BusState::get_fw_dev_path
>>>> level, let's add an ability for the external caller to specify
>>>> whether to apply suffixes or not.
>>>>
>>>> We could handle suffixes in SLOF (ignore for now) but this would require
>>>> serious rework in the node opening code in SLOF which has no obvious
>>>> benefit for the currently emulated sPAPR machine.
>>>
>>> For the record, the commit message is not entirely correct in presenting
>>> the situation.  QEMU *does not care in any way* of benefits for the
>>> currently emulated sPAPR machine.  The benefit would be to QEMU in having
>>> simpler code.
>>>
>>> You just got a wildcard because Forth is scary. :)
>>
>> I know :) Should I remove that part and replace it with the "scary" one?
> 
> No, unless you have to respin for other reasons (I hope not).

I am about to respin the series against the latest QOM stuff and I am about
to change commit message in the "The benefit would be to QEMU in having
simpler code" part - what part of QEMU gets simpler? I am avoiding fixing
SLOF and I am fixing QEMU so QEMU gets (liiiiittle) bit more complicated
but not simpler :) What do I miss?


-- 
Alexey

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