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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9BDC59.1090801__3625.36923862553$1251728563$gmane$org@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com>

Amit Shah wrote:
> Can you please explain your rationale for being so rigid about merging
> the two drivers?
>   

Because they do the same thing.  I'm not going to constantly rehash 
this.  It's been explained multiple times.

If there are implementation issues within the Linux drivers because of 
peculiarities of hvc then hvc needs to be fixed.  It has nothing to do 
with the driver ABI which is what qemu cares about.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 		Amit
>   

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-31 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1251181044-3696-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-08-25  6:17 ` [PATCH] virtio_console: Add interface for guest and host communication Amit Shah
     [not found] ` <1251181044-3696-2-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-08-25  6:17   ` [PATCH 1/3] char: Emit 'CLOSED' events on char device close Amit Shah
     [not found]   ` <1251181044-3696-3-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com>
2009-08-25  6:17     ` [PATCH 2/3] virtio-console: rename dvq to ovq Amit Shah
2009-08-25  8:16 ` [PATCH 3/3] virtio-console: Add interface for generic guest-host communication Amit Shah
2009-08-26 11:27 ` Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Amit Shah
     [not found] ` <20090826112718.GA11117@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-26 15:45   ` Amit Shah
     [not found]   ` <20090826154552.GA31910@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-27  4:07     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-27  5:04     ` Michael Ellerman
     [not found]     ` <1251346023.20467.21.camel@pasglop>
2009-08-27  6:51       ` [Qemu-devel] " Amit Shah
2009-08-27  9:08       ` Alan Cox
     [not found]       ` <20090827100809.5f0aa0a7@linux.intel.com>
2009-08-27  9:27         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]         ` <1251365243.20467.47.camel@pasglop>
2009-08-27 11:45           ` [PATCH] hvc_console: provide (un)locked version for hvc_resize() Hendrik Brueckner
2009-08-29  1:15         ` [Qemu-devel] Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Jamie Lokier
     [not found]     ` <1251349485.6267.6.camel@concordia>
2009-08-27  6:52       ` Amit Shah
     [not found]       ` <20090827065251.GB3218@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-27 14:13         ` Ryan Arnold
2009-08-28 17:00   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-30 10:10     ` Amit Shah
     [not found]     ` <20090830101057.GB32563@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-30 12:48       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]       ` <4A9A7525.6010707@codemonkey.ws>
2009-08-30 13:17         ` Amit Shah
     [not found]         ` <20090830131738.GC3401@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-31 13:17           ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]           ` <4A9BCD61.2040903@codemonkey.ws>
2009-08-31 13:51             ` Amit Shah
     [not found]             ` <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-31 14:21               ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
     [not found]               ` <4A9BDC59.1090801@codemonkey.ws>
2009-08-31 14:31                 ` Amit Shah
     [not found]                 ` <20090831143101.GA16943@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-31 15:56                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-08-31 16:19                     ` Amit Shah
     [not found]                     ` <20090831161925.GA22928@amit-x200.redhat.com>
2009-08-31 16:37                       ` Anthony Liguori
     [not found]                       ` <4A9BFC31.9070005@codemonkey.ws>
2009-09-21  5:20                         ` Rusty Russell
2009-08-25  6:17 Amit Shah

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