Re: [PATCH 08/15] hw/timer/arm_timer: Rename arm_timer_init() -> arm_timer_new()

[Peter Maydell]

On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 21:36, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> QDev models often use foo_new() as the combination of
> foo_init() + foo_realize(). Here arm_timer_init() is
> a such combination, so rename it as arm_timer_new() to
> emphasis the returned device is already realized.

The other convention is that foo_new() does allocate-and-init
and foo_init() is init-in-place. But we get to the same
place either way.

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

(It would be nice to do in-place rather than the
allocation here at some point.)

thanks
-- PMM