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SubjectRe: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication
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Am Dienstag 29 September 2009 14:20:06 schrieb Amit Shah:
> Christian tested the patch on s390 and found that the output was
> very slow. He tracked it down to put_chars never getting init'ed
> to the final value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

Thanks. This fix is
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>

I am a bit reluctant to Ack the whole change, since my preference would have
been to not merge virtio serial/console and instead keeping both separate.
We have already managed to clutter all other virtio drivers with tons of
configuration stuff and feature bits - and every driver uses a different model
for configuration and commands (feature bits, config space, config_change
indication, extra config virtqueue, commands embedded into the data....).
Using a different device ID for a different use seem like a better way to me.

On the other hand, this patch allows more than one console (I have not tested
this feature) and with this fix applied I dont see any obvious problems.

For the console part I can give a
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (console)

Ignoring my preference for having a separate driver and devids, I have no
opinion about the generic communication stuff - no ack or nack.

> ---
> drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 37513e8..598bc0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -571,6 +571,14 @@ int init_port_console(struct virtio_console_port
> *port) * The Host's telling us this port is a console port. Hook it
> * up with an hvc console.
> *
> + * We had set the virtio_cons put_chars implementation to
> + * put_chars for early_init. Now that we're done with the
> + * early init phase, replace it with our cons_put_chars
> + * implementation.
> + */
> + virtio_cons.put_chars = cons_put_chars;
> +
> + /*
> * To set up and manage our virtual console, we call
> * hvc_alloc().
> *



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