All NICs have a cleanup function that, in most cases, zeroes the pointer
to the NICState. In some cases, it frees data belonging to the NIC.
However, this function is never called except when exiting from QEMU.
It is not necessary to NULL pointers and free data here; the right place
to do that would be in the device's unrealize function, after calling
qemu_del_nic. Zeroing the NIC multiple times is also wrong for multiqueue
devices.
This cleanup function gets in the way of making the NetClientStates for
the NIC hold an object_ref reference to the object, so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Pointer properties can be set only by code, not by device_add. A
device with a pointer property can work with device_add only when the
property may remain null.
This is the case for property "interrupt_vector" of device
"etraxfs,pic". Add a comment there.
Set cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet for the other devices with
pointer properties, with a comment explaining why.
Juha Riihimäki and Peter Maydell deserve my thanks for making "pointer
property must not remain null" blatantly obvious in the OMAP devices.
Only device "smbus-eeprom" is actually changed. The others are all
sysbus devices, which get cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet set
in their abstract base's class init function. Setting it again in
their class init function is technically redundant, but serves as
insurance for when sysbus devices become available with device_add,
and as documentation.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com> (for ETRAX)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
