[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] char: Remove special init_reset handling

[Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>]

On (Tue) Nov 03 2009 [23:25:52], Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Tue) Nov 03 2009 [18:08:57], Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Amit Shah wrote:
> > > The initial_reset sent to chardevs doesn't do much other than setting
> > > a bool to true. Char devices are interested in the open event and
> > > that gets sent whenever the device is opened.
> > 
> > Have you checked with the monitor in all use cases (dedicated & muxed
> > console, stdio & SDL console, etc.)? It was introduced once to fix a
> 
> I've checked with -monitor stdio, monitor in SDL and also chardevs using
> unix sockets.
> 
> I've not tried mux yet; I'll try that and report back. BTW if it ends up
> not working with this patch, it'd be broken in the current master as
> well.

I tried with:

-chardev stdio,mux=on,id=mux -monitor chardev:mux -serial chardev:mux

The monitor prompt shows up as does the serial output.

(btw I've also tried closing and opening char devs and that works fine
too)

		Amit