Re: [PATCH v3 00/10] chardev: Improve @docstring and clarify qemu_chr_write() uses

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 23/3/26 09:45, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 6:05 AM Pierrick Bouvier
> <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/21/26 11:15 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>>> On 12.02.2026 23:13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>    From this patchset, 1 change has now found its way to the master
>>>>>>> branch:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     chardev/char-pty: Do not ignore chr_write() failures
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Besides it, the following 2 changes were marked for-stable:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     chardev/char: Allow partial writes in qemu_chr_write()
>>>>>>>     chardev/char: Preserve %errno in qemu_chr_write()
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are other changes (including the above 2) not needed anymore?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They are, I need to reply to Marc-André and respin a v4...
> 
> What was that for?

On patch #6:

   > the final return value that should be changed?
   > "offset && !write_all ? offset : res" ?

> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Old bugs so can wait 11.0 :S
>>>>>
>>>>> Found an old(ish) thread...  ping? :))
>>>>
>>>> Cc'ing new docs/ maintainer :P
>>>
>>> Ping *N?  11.0 is almost out already..
>>>
>>> /mjt
>>
>> I didn't answer previously, since it was touching code in addition to
>> docs, and was expecting this to be picked up by chardev maintainer
>> (Marc-André in this case if I'm right). So I assumed it fell back to a
>> subsystem documentation change and not a general one I was supposed to take.
>>
> 
> I think we missed the boat for 11.0.
> 
> Philippe, maybe you can rebase, and I will queue for 11.1?

Maybe, no promise.