Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:26:16 -0500 | From | Anthony Liguori <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication |
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Amit Shah wrote: > Right; there was some discussion about this. A few alternatives were > suggested like > > - udev scripts to create symlinks from ports to function, like: > > /dev/vcon3 -> /dev/virtio-console/clipboard > > - Some fqdn-like hierarchy, like > > /dev/virtio-console/com/redhat/clipboard > > which again can be created by udev scripts >
And I dislike all of them. What I'd rather have is these devices exposed as tty's with a sys attribute that exposed the name of the device.
This is not all that different to how usb serial devices work.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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