Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] virtio-console: no need to remove char handlers explicitly

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

On (Fri) 13 Jan 2012 [15:24:59], Amit Shah wrote:
> qdev is now equipped (thanks to the last commit) to disassociate
> chardevs from the qdev devices on the devices going away.  So doing it
> in the virtio-console driver is not necessary.
> 
> Since that was the only thing being done in the qdev exit method, drop
> it entirely.

Commit message is correct, patch is not.  Updated patch coming soon..

> diff --git a/hw/virtio-console.c b/hw/virtio-console.c
> index 73d866a..9275fd9 100644
> --- a/hw/virtio-console.c
> +++ b/hw/virtio-console.c
> @@ -127,16 +127,6 @@ static int virtconsole_initfn(VirtIOSerialPort *port)
>  
>  static int virtconsole_exitfn(VirtIOSerialPort *port)
>  {
> -    VirtConsole *vcon = DO_UPCAST(VirtConsole, port, port);
> -
> -    if (vcon->chr) {
> -	/*
> -	 * Instead of closing the chardev, free it so it can be used
> -	 * for other purposes.
> -	 */
> -	qemu_chr_add_handlers(vcon->chr, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
> -    }
> -
>      return 0;
>  }

		Amit