Amit Shah wrote: > 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. > I don't think that's a good justification. This device is very much a serial port. I don't see any reason not to treat it like one. Regards, Anthony Liguori _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
