On (Fri) Sep 11 2009 [12:26:16], Anthony Liguori wrote:
Amit Shah wrote:
Right; there was some discussion about this. A few alternatives wereAnd 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.
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
A sysfs attribute can even be exposed with a char device.
I didn't want to venture more into tty after the hvc thing and the
unexpected bugs that crept up (memory corruption, which is now fixed in
linux-next). I'd rather just keep it limited to the subsystems I know.