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, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/qdev.h b/hw/qdev.h
index 3b629d4fb..52aadd2f1 100644
--- a/hw/qdev.h
+++ b/hw/qdev.h
@@ -482,4 +482,12 @@ const char *qdev_property_get_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *name,
  */
 void qdev_property_add_legacy(DeviceState *dev, Property *prop, Error **errp);
 
+/**
+ * @qdev_get_root - returns the root device of the composition tree
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *   The root of the composition tree.
+ */
+DeviceState *qdev_get_root(void);
+
 #endif