From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Extending virtio_console to support multiple ports Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:21:13 -0500 Message-ID: <4A9BDC59.1090801__3625.36923862553$1251728563$gmane$org@codemonkey.ws> References: <1251181044-3696-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090826112718.GA11117@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A980D18.30106@codemonkey.ws> <20090830101057.GB32563@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9A7525.6010707@codemonkey.ws> <20090830131738.GC3401@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4A9BCD61.2040903@codemonkey.ws> <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090831135147.GA16371@amit-x200.redhat.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Amit Shah Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org 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 >