Re: [PATCH 4/4] virtio: disable multiport console support.

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:49:43PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Unfortunately there proved to be at least one bug which requires an
> ABI change, so we're best off not introducing multiport support until
> 2.6.35.
> 
> While I generally left the multiport code paths intact, I really wanted
> to remove the ABI defines from the header, which meant some quite deep cuts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/include/linux/virtio_console.h b/include/linux/virtio_console.h
> --- a/include/linux/virtio_console.h
> +++ b/include/linux/virtio_console.h
> @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
>  
>  /* Feature bits */
>  #define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_SIZE	0	/* Does host provide console size? */
> -#define VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT 1	/* Does host provide multiple ports? */
>  
>  struct virtio_console_config {
>  	/* colums of the screens */
> @@ -25,24 +24,6 @@ struct virtio_console_config {
>  	__u32 nr_ports;
>  } __attribute__((packed));

We also want to remove nr_ports, correct?
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