hw/qdev-properties.c: Improve diagnostic for setting property after realize

Now we have error_setg() we can improve the error message emitted if
you attempt to set a property of a device after the device is realized
(the previous message was "permission denied" which was not very
informative).

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-id: 1364218844-7509-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/qdev-properties.h b/hw/qdev-properties.h
index c9bb246..a379339 100644
--- a/hw/qdev-properties.h
+++ b/hw/qdev-properties.h
@@ -167,4 +167,16 @@ void error_set_from_qdev_prop_error(Error **errp, int ret, DeviceState *dev,
  */
 void qdev_property_add_static(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop, Error **errp);
 
+/**
+ * @qdev_prop_set_after_realize:
+ * @dev: device
+ * @name: name of property
+ * @errp: indirect pointer to Error to be set
+ * Set the Error object to report that an attempt was made to set a property
+ * on a device after it has already been realized. This is a utility function
+ * which allows property-setter functions to easily report the error in
+ * a friendly format identifying both the device and the property.
+ */
+void qdev_prop_set_after_realize(DeviceState *dev, const char *name,
+                                 Error **errp);
 #endif