[libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] qemu: support chardev for all machvirt config

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/07/2017 12:47 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 14:01 -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Drew pointed out that we can use -chardev with machvirt platform
>> serial devices like:
>>  
>>    -chardev pty,id=foo
>>    -serial chardev:foo
>>  
>> And indeed it looks like qemu has supported this for as long as -chardev
>> has been around. Wiring this up will enable all the modern -chardev
>> features for every machvirt config (and some other arch/machine types).
>>  
>> However just enabling that change is going to cause a lot of unneeded
>> test suite churn, due to the fact that some code is still checking for
>> qemu -chardev support, even though our minimum qemu version always has
>> chardev nowadays. So take the opportunity to exorcise QEMU_CAPS_CHARDEV
>>  
>> * Patch 1 reverts Christopher's recent patch, to unbreak existing configs
>> * Patch 2-3 make pci-serial work for machvirt and demonstrate it with a
>>    test suite change.
>> * Patch 4-10 slowly strip out QEMU_CAPS_DEVICE
>> * Patch 11 adds -chardev support for platform serial devices
>> * Patch 12 is a cleanup
> 
> Things that I forgot to mention during review:
> 
>   * patch 11/12 fixes [1], a fact that should be mentioned
>     in the commit message;
> 
>   * you need to update the release notes as well.
> 
> Thanks for taking on this! :)
> 

Thanks for the review :)

I've pushed the series with (hopefully) all your comments addressed, minus the
bit I mentioned in patch #10. I'll send follow up patches for news and
dropping unused qemuCaps

Thanks,
Cole