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Message-ID: <20090911173307.GB27046@amit-x200.redhat.com>
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
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