On 17/06/2015 18:39, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > Same machine type. Second is able to receive it. First one is not. > > Source don't know what is on the other side. If user is going to put a: > > > > --dont_send_serial_because_I_don't_care > > > > Then it can as well just disable the serial device and live with it. > > Just losing worst-case a couple of characters is not the same as > losing serial functionality.
This is _not_ losing serial functionality. Usually the FIFOs are not migrated. This is losing serial functionality _that wasn't being used anyway_. > We could have a flag to tell us what's on the other side, > but that would need even more testing. So let's keep it > simple. Yes, let's keep it simple. Let's keep it the same as 2.3 has been released. Paolo