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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add serial number support for
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To: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 01:06:57PM -0400, john cooper wrote:
> [Resend of earlier patch: 1/2 rebased to qemu-kvm,
> 2/2 minor tweak]

patch 1/2 seems to be missing.

> Equivalent functionality currently exists for IDE
> and SCSI, however it is not yet implemented for
> virtio.

So why can't we re-use the existing interfaces instead of inventing a
new one?