Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Sanitize output characters in serial console

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On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:53 PM, walimis <walimisdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:15:45PM +0800, Asias He wrote:
>>On 08/10/2011 01:55 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Asias He <asias.hejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 08/10/2011 01:30 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>>> On 8/10/11 2:56 AM, Asias He wrote:
>>>>>> This patch fixes strange characters in serial console.

...
>>> OK, cool. Do we know what the extra characters are and why the guest
>>> is sending them?
> I think the reason is not important here. I use qemu to test
> and it also outputs that extra characters. They seem to be outputted by
> driver or kernel of guest os.
>
> It's not sane to change the output of guest os. Suppose if we just
> want to see what "cat /dev/urandom" prints, then only
> allow ascii characters to be outputted? I think that's not what we expect.

So we don't need this patch, otherwise, the possible error would be hidden.
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