Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 03/13] char: chardevice hotswap

2017-07-06 Thread Marc-André Lureau
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Anton Nefedov wrote: > This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend > removal. > > Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e. > frontend would continue its regular operation. > However, backends are not stateless a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 03/13] char: chardevice hotswap

2017-07-06 Thread Marc-André Lureau
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Anton Nefedov wrote: > This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend > removal. > > Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e. > frontend would continue its regular operation. > However, backends are not stateless a

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 03/13] char: chardevice hotswap

2017-07-06 Thread Anton Nefedov
This patch adds a possibility to change a char device without a frontend removal. Ideally, it would have to happen transparently to a frontend, i.e. frontend would continue its regular operation. However, backends are not stateless and are set up by the frontends via qemu_chr_fe_<> functions, and