On (Thu) 24 Jan 2013 [08:51:39], Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:30:59PM +0100, Sjur Brændeland wrote: > > Another approach could perhaps be to change the way port-names are > > generated by virtio_console... > > How would that help here? > > The way to solve this is to provide userspace with some "unique" > identifier of your device. Traditionally that is done with a number of > different methods: > - serial numbers and other unique strings in sysfs files > - device paths (plugged into the 3rd port on the 4th USB device) > - a "label" in the device (think about filesystems) virtio-console does have a concept of port 'names'. For example, the QEMU guest agent knows it just has to open ports available with the /dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.guest-agent* names. Sjur, if you add minimal support for multiport, and use the VIRTIO_CONSOLE_PORT_NAME feature, this should be already supported by udev. Amit _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
