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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

   Hi,

>>> +//#define SPICE_QEMU_CHAR_USE_IOCTL
>>
>> Why is this disabled?
>> Does it depend on the chardev patches from Amit?
>>
>
> There was a long discussion that concluded we don't want IOCTL's at all,
> and that there should be some other mechanism for connection state
> communication between the two sides. Meanwhile I found out I don't need
> these (I don't remember exactly what I used instead, but basically just
> the regular results of write/read).

Ok, so when it is obsolete now it can be dropped altogether I guess?

cheers,
   Gerd