object: qom module support

Little helper function to load modules on demand.  In most cases adding
module loading support for devices and other objects is just
s/object_class_by_name/module_object_class_by_name/ in the right spot.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20200624131045.14512-3-kraxel@redhat.com

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 6ece96bc2b..34daaf1280 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -985,6 +985,20 @@ ObjectClass *object_class_by_name(const char *typename)
     return type->class;
 }
 
+ObjectClass *module_object_class_by_name(const char *typename)
+{
+    ObjectClass *oc;
+
+    oc = object_class_by_name(typename);
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+    if (!oc) {
+        module_load_qom_one(typename);
+        oc = object_class_by_name(typename);
+    }
+#endif
+    return oc;
+}
+
 ObjectClass *object_class_get_parent(ObjectClass *class)
 {
     TypeImpl *type = type_get_parent(class->type);