On Wed, 21 May 2014 22:22:46 +0200
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Sometimes an object needs to present a property which is actually on
> another object, or it needs to provide an alias name for an existing
> property.
>
> Examples:
> a.foo -> b.foo
> a.old_name -> a.new_name
this could be used for x86 cpu features where the same CPUID bit has
different names depending whether CPU is Intel or AMD based.
>
> The new object_property_add_alias() API allows objects to alias a
> property on another object. The source and target names can be
^^^ the same or
> different.
