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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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To: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

   Hi,

> Would a patch adding (optional) auto-reconnect (with a back-off delay)
> to the socket chardev be acceptable ?

Sounds sensible to me.  And, yes, it should be an option (defaulting to 
off to maintain current behavior when not specified).

cheers,
   Gerd