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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: virtio-serial: An interface for host-guest
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Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:14:29 pm Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> I think strings are better as numbers for identifying protocols as you 
> can work without a central registry for the numbers then.

Yep, all you need is a central registry for names :)

Rusty.