Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] virtio: serial: expose a 'guest_writable' callback for users

[Peter Maydell]

On 13 November 2014 14:47, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Di, 2014-10-28 at 20:21 +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
>> Users of virtio-serial may want to know when a port becomes writable.  A
>> port can stop accepting writes if the guest port is open but not being
>> read from.  In this case, data gets queued up in the virtqueue, and
>> after the vq is full, writes to the port do not succeed.
>>
>> When the guest reads off a vq element, and adds a new one for the host
>> to put data in, we can tell users the port is available for more writes,
>> via the new ->guest_writable() callback.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
>
> What is the plan with that one?

It missed the hardfreeze deadline and is heading for 2.3 instead.

thanks
-- PMM