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 _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
