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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:10:53 +0200
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/17] v4: virtio-serial fixes,	new abi for
	port discovery
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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

On 03/31/10 09:33, Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
>
> These patches rework the way ports are announced to the guests. A
> control message is used to let the guest know a new port is
> added. Initial port discovery and port hot-plug work via this way now.
>
> This was done to have the host and guest port numbering in sync to
> avoid surprises after several hotplug/unplug operations and
> migrations.
>
> The ability to assign a particular port number to ports is also added
> so that management software can control the placement of ports.

Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

cheers,
   Gerd