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authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>2010-01-20 00:36:54 +0530
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2010-01-20 08:25:23 -0600
commit160600fd137a3a6f0d6a09579cf2282152f842ab (patch)
treeb5cb507027f5ec5c17a6f9df9bcdc231f555b87f /configure
parent6663a1956eb628f1bddc96d2cab361e039df5571 (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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