Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports forgeneric guest and host communication

[Amit Shah]

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
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