Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3 04/33] make Device and Bus Resettable

[Damien Hedde]

On 8/7/19 4:41 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 at 15:58, Damien Hedde <damien.he...@greensocs.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> +/**
>> + * device_reset:
>> + * Resets the device @dev, @cold tell whether to do a cold or warm reset.
>> + * Base behavior is to reset the device and its qdev/qbus subtree.
> 
> What do you mean by "base behavior" here? When would this ever
> do anything else?
> 

Oops, just noticed I missed this comment.

Since I had to use a method "foreach_child" to call reset on children,
the behavior depends on it. Default implementation in base classes
follows the qdev tree. But a specialization can change that.
That's more a side-effect than a wanted feature.