Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: s390: Split out early console code.

Cornelia Huck
2012-12-11T12:36:11Z

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:10:39 +0100
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:

>
> On 10.12.2012, at 10:06, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:45:47 +0100
> > Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On 07.12.2012, at 13:29, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >>
> >>> This code is transport agnostic and can be used by both the legacy
> >>> virtio code and virtio_ccw.
> >>
> >> This code should die. It's a nightmare to implement in QEMU, because it ends up being a separate char device. I'd prefer if we don't carry it over to the virtio-ccw world :).
> >
> > I don't really want to kill an interface in a patchset adding a new
> > transport. We may kill this later on, though...
>
> I fully agree :). What I was trying to say is "leave this to die in the old code and don't bother about it in the new world order". Removing support for the old kvm virtio machine is nothing for today.

Ah, OK. I'll merge the return -ENODEV into the first patch then and
drop this one.