qom: introduce root device

This is based on Jan's suggestion for how to do unique naming.  The root device
is the root of composition.  All devices are reachable via child<> links from
this device.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
index 6f77af91ef..bb0b9f7d6a 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/qdev.c
@@ -1161,3 +1161,15 @@ void qdev_property_add_legacy(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop,
 
     g_free(type);
 }
+
+DeviceState *qdev_get_root(void)
+{
+    static DeviceState *qdev_root;
+
+    if (!qdev_root) {
+        qdev_root = qdev_create(NULL, "container");
+        qdev_init_nofail(qdev_root);
+    }
+
+    return qdev_root;
+}