On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Add a greeting string to CharDriverState which is printed after > initialization. Used to have the qemu vc consoles labeled. This > way we can avoid walking all the chardevs a second time after > initialization just to print the greeting.
I think "greeting" is propagating a bad idea into new code. Much better would be some form of ID and/or human readable description that can also be used elsewhere. Paul