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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:03:07 +0530 From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com> To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication On (Fri) Sep 11 2009 [12:26:16], Anthony Liguori wrote: > Amit Shah wrote: >> Right; there was some discussion about this. A few alternatives were >> suggested like >> >> - udev scripts to create symlinks from ports to function, like: >> >> /dev/vcon3 -> /dev/virtio-console/clipboard >> >> - Some fqdn-like hierarchy, like >> >> /dev/virtio-console/com/redhat/clipboard >> >> which again can be created by udev scripts >> > > And I dislike all of them. What I'd rather have is these devices > exposed as tty's with a sys attribute that exposed the name of the > device. A sysfs attribute can even be exposed with a char device. I didn't want to venture more into tty after the hvc thing and the unexpected bugs that crept up (memory corruption, which is now fixed in linux-next). I'd rather just keep it limited to the subsystems I know. Amit -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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