From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4A9BDC59.1090801@codemonkey.ws> References: <1251181044-3696-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090826112718.GA11117@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A980D18.30106@codemonkey.ws> <20090830101057.GB32563@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9A7525.6010707@codemonkey.ws> <20090830131738.GC3401@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9BCD61.2040903@codemonkey.ws> <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Amit Shah Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f175.google.com ([209.85.222.175]:56320 "EHLO mail-pz0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751930AbZHaOVR (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:17 -0400 Received: by pzk5 with SMTP id 5so2887686pzk.21 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:21:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Amit Shah wrote: > Can you please explain your rationale for being so rigid about merging > the two drivers? > Because they do the same thing. I'm not going to constantly rehash this. It's been explained multiple times. 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. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Amit > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi7l9-0000FL-Mt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi7l3-0000EV-9x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:25 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46121 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mi7l1-0000EN-CS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:19 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:33758) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mi7l1-0004lE-41 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:21:19 -0400 Received: by pxi6 with SMTP id 6so137590pxi.27 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A9BDC59.1090801@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:13 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1251181044-3696-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090826112718.GA11117@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A980D18.30106@codemonkey.ws> <20090830101057.GB32563@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9A7525.6010707@codemonkey.ws> <20090830131738.GC3401@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9BCD61.2040903@codemonkey.ws> <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Amit Shah Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Amit Shah wrote: > Can you please explain your rationale for being so rigid about merging > the two drivers? > Because they do the same thing. I'm not going to constantly rehash this. It's been explained multiple times. 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. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Amit >