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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/9] chardev: add greeting
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:

> Add a greeting string to CharDriverState which is printed after
> initialization.  Used to have the qemu vc consoles labeled.  This
> way we can avoid walking all the chardevs a second time after
> initialization just to print the greeting.

I doubt this would be worthwhile on its own, but it enables getting rid
of serial_devices[] and parallel_devices[] later in the series, which I
like.