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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:55:32 am Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Also I still think passing a 'protocol' string for each port is a good 
> > idea, so you can stick that into a sysfs file for guests use.
> 
> Or drops ports altogether and just use protocol strings...

Both is silly, yes.

I guess strings + HAL magic can make the /dev names sane.  I don't want to
see userspace trolling through sysfs to figure out what device to open.

Which is why I prefer assigned numbers, which get mapped to minors.

Rusty.