Re: [PATCH 03/55] qdev: New qdev_new(), qdev_realize(), etc.

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 19/05/20 16:54, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> +
> +    object_ref(OBJECT(dev));
> +    object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(dev), true, "realized", &err);
> +    if (err) {
> +        error_propagate_prepend(errp, err,
> +                                "Initialization of device %s failed: ",
> +                                object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)));
> +    }
> +    object_unref(OBJECT(dev));

Why is the ref/unref pair needed?  Should it be done in the realized
setter instead?

Paolo