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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports |
Date: | Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:56:27 -0500 |
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Amit Shah wrote:
On (Mon) Aug 31 2009 [09:21:13], Anthony Liguori wrote:Amit Shah wrote:Because they do the same thing. I'm not going to constantly rehash this. It's been explained multiple times.Can you please explain your rationale for being so rigid about merging the two drivers?It hardly looks like the same thing each passing day.
That's BS. The very first time you posted, you received the same feedback from both Paul and I. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/44778. That was back in June. You've consistently received the same feedback both on the ML and in private.
We're ending up having to compromise on the performance or functionality or simplicity the devices just because of this restriction.
This is _not_ a high performance device and there so far has been no functionality impact. I don't understand why you keep dragging your feet about this. It's very simple, if you post a functional set of patches for a converged virtio-console driver, we'll merge it. If you keep arguing about having a separate virtio-serial driver, it's not going to get merged. I don't know how to be more clear than this.
If there are implementation issues within the Linux drivers because of peculiarities of hvc then hvc needs to be fixed. It has nothing to do with the driver ABI which is what qemu cares about.I'd welcome that effort as well. But we all know that's not going to happen anytime soon.
That is not a justification to add a new device in QEMU. If we add a new device everytime we encounter a less than ideal interface within a guest, we're going to end up having hundreds of devices.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
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