hw: Mark devices picking up char backends actively FIXME

Character devices defined with -serial and -parallel are for board
initialization to wire up.  Board code examines serial_hds[] and
parallel_hds[] to find them, and creates devices with their qdev
chardev properties set accordingly.

Except a few devices go on a fishing expedition for a suitable backend
instead of exposing a chardev property for board code to set: they use
serial_hds[] (often via qemu_char_get_next_serial()) or parallel_hds[]
in their realize() or init() method to connect to a backend.

Picking up backends that way works when the devices are created by
board code.  But it's inappropriate for -device or device_add.  Not
only is it inconsistent with how the other characrer device models
work (they connect to a backend explicitly identified by a "chardev"
property), it breaks when the backend has been picked up by the board
or a previous -device / device_add already.

Example:

    $ qemu-system-ppc64 -M bamboo -S -device i82378 -device pc87312 -device pc87312
    qemu-system-ppc64: -device pc87312: Property 'isa-parallel.chardev' can't take value 'parallel0', it's in use

Mark them with suitable FIXME comments.

Cc: Li Guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
Cc: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: "Andreas Färber" <andreas.faerber@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/isa/pc87312.c b/hw/isa/pc87312.c
index 2849e8d367..3b1fcec537 100644
--- a/hw/isa/pc87312.c
+++ b/hw/isa/pc87312.c
@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ static void pc87312_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
     pc87312_hard_reset(s);
 
     if (is_parallel_enabled(s)) {
+        /* FIXME use a qdev chardev prop instead of parallel_hds[] */
         chr = parallel_hds[0];
         if (chr == NULL) {
             chr = qemu_chr_new("par0", "null", NULL);
@@ -296,6 +297,7 @@ static void pc87312_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
 
     for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
         if (is_uart_enabled(s, i)) {
+            /* FIXME use a qdev chardev prop instead of serial_hds[] */
             chr = serial_hds[i];
             if (chr == NULL) {
                 snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "ser%d", i);