Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Fix socket chardev regression

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 04:04:45PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 8:29 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I fully agree that current way is not ideal since basically the
> > backend should not depend on the frontend, but now we have the
> > gcontext as an exception then the backend will somehow depend on the
> > frontend.  If you don't like the way I proposed, another thing I am
> > thinking is that whether we can assign the gcontext for the chardev
> > backend before initialization of it (or by parsing the backend &
> > frontend relationships before init of backends), then we assure that
> > we never change the gcontext of any chardev backends.  Though that
> 
> Yes, I think that's a cleaner solution. I suggested to use an iothread
> argument in the cover letter.
> 
> Paolo, Daniel, any opinion?

Never changing the GContext once initialized is much nicer. I think I
had suggested that before when this code was first proposed.

Regards,
Daniel
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