[Libguestfs] [PATCH v2 5/7] launch: direct: Remove dead code promising we were going to use virtio-console.

Pino Toscano ptoscano at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 14:55:41 UTC 2016


On Sunday 20 March 2016 12:31:02 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> We're never going to use virtio-console since, although it is faster,
> it's not available during early boot, and that is more important for
> debugging.
> ---
>  src/launch-direct.c | 10 ----------
>  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/launch-direct.c b/src/launch-direct.c
> index a81d4b3..f1fe92b 100644
> --- a/src/launch-direct.c
> +++ b/src/launch-direct.c
> @@ -574,19 +574,9 @@ launch_direct (guestfs_h *g, void *datav, const char *arg)
>    ADD_CMDLINE ("-device");
>    ADD_CMDLINE (VIRTIO_SERIAL);
>  
> -#if 0
> -  /* Use virtio-console (a variant form of virtio-serial) for the
> -   * guest's serial console.
> -   */
> -  ADD_CMDLINE ("-chardev");
> -  ADD_CMDLINE ("stdio,id=console");
> -  ADD_CMDLINE ("-device");
> -  ADD_CMDLINE ("virtconsole,chardev=console,name=org.libguestfs.console.0");
> -#else
>    /* When the above works ...  until then: */

This line ^ should be removed too, as it does not make much sense
without the comments removed by this patch.  With this fix, LGTM.

Thanks,
-- 
Pino Toscano
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