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author | Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> | 2010-01-20 00:36:54 +0530 |
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committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2010-01-20 08:25:23 -0600 |
commit | 160600fd137a3a6f0d6a09579cf2282152f842ab (patch) | |
tree | b5cb507027f5ec5c17a6f9df9bcdc231f555b87f /Changelog | |
parent | 6663a1956eb628f1bddc96d2cab361e039df5571 (diff) |
virtio-serial-bus: Add a port 'name' property for port discovery in guests
The port 'id' or number is internal state between the guest kernel and
our bus implementation. This is invocation-dependent and isn't part of
the guest-host ABI.
To correcly enumerate and map ports between the host and the guest, the
'name' property is used.
Example:
-device virtserialport,name=org.qemu.port.0
This invocation will get us a char device in the guest at:
/dev/virtio-ports/org.qemu.port.0
which can be a symlink to
/dev/vport0p3
This 'name' property is exposed by the guest kernel in a sysfs
attribute:
/sys/kernel/virtio-ports/vport0p3/name
A simple udev script can pick up this name and create the symlink
mentioned above.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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