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Diffstat (limited to 'include/hw/qdev-core.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/hw/qdev-core.h | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-core.h b/include/hw/qdev-core.h index f1fd0f8736..a24d0dd566 100644 --- a/include/hw/qdev-core.h +++ b/include/hw/qdev-core.h @@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ struct VMStateDescription; * Devices are constructed in two stages, * 1) object instantiation via object_initialize() and * 2) device realization via #DeviceState:realized property. - * The former may not fail (it might assert or exit), the latter may return - * error information to the caller and must be re-entrant. + * The former may not fail (and must not abort or exit, since it is called + * during device introspection already), and the latter may return error + * information to the caller and must be re-entrant. * Trivial field initializations should go into #TypeInfo.instance_init. * Operations depending on @props static properties should go into @realize. * After successful realization, setting static properties will fail. |