hw: Mark device misusing nd_table[] FIXME

NICs defined with -net nic are for board initialization to wire up.
Board code examines nd_table[] to find them, and creates devices with
their qdev NIC properties set accordingly.

Except "allwinner-a10" goes on a fishing expedition for NIC
configuration instead of exposing the usual NIC properties for board
code to set: it uses nd_table[0] in its instance_init() method.

Picking up the first -net nic option's configuration that way works
when the device is created by board code.  But it's inappropriate for
-device and device_add.  Not only is it inconsistent with how the
other block device models work (they get their configuration from
properties "mac", "vlan", "netdev"), it breaks when nd_table[0] has
been picked up by the board or a previous -device / device_add
already.

Example:

    $ qemu-system-arm -S -M cubieboard -device allwinner-a10
    qemu-system-arm: -device allwinner-a10: Property 'allwinner-emac.netdev' can't take value 'hub0port0', it's in use
    Aborted (core dumped)

It also breaks in other entertaining ways:

    $ qemu-system-arm -M highbank -device allwinner-a10
    qemu-system-arm: -device allwinner-a10: Unsupported NIC model: xgmac
    $ qemu-system-arm -M highbank -net nic,model=allwinner-emac -device allwinner-a10
    qemu-system-arm: Unsupported NIC model: allwinner-emac

Mark the mistake with a FIXME comment.

Cc: Li Guang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <[email protected]>

diff --git a/hw/arm/allwinner-a10.c b/hw/arm/allwinner-a10.c
index 86965a72a52c4bf9a2f47b1302672b998c13cac2..ff249af33580aabe6c6e66deff10d3c8d9f15298 100644 (file)
--- a/hw/arm/allwinner-a10.c
+++ b/hw/arm/allwinner-a10.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static void aw_a10_init(Object *obj)
 
     object_initialize(&s->emac, sizeof(s->emac), TYPE_AW_EMAC);
     qdev_set_parent_bus(DEVICE(&s->emac), sysbus_get_default());
+    /* FIXME use qdev NIC properties instead of nd_table[] */
     if (nd_table[0].used) {
         qemu_check_nic_model(&nd_table[0], TYPE_AW_EMAC);
         qdev_set_nic_properties(DEVICE(&s->emac), &nd_table[0]);