[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] monitor rework

[Jan Kiszka]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Looks like each round of this series makes it longer and longer... :)
>>
>> Changes in this version:
>>  o consequent rework of the monitor API (as Anthony suggested)
>>     - introduce mon argument to monitor services
>>     - pass mon to monitor command handlers
>>  o fix for broken initial CHR_EVENT_RESET
>>  o proper monitor default size
>>  o more testing, various fixes
>>    (e.g. telnet monitors didn't work with v1)
>>
>> To recall the major contributions of this series:
>>  o complete fix for early disk password inquiry
>>  o non-VM-blocking password inquiry
>>  o unlimited and fully decoupled monitor terminals
>>  o monitor pass-through via gdb
>>  o improved usability of mux'ed monitor terminals
>>
>> Ideally, the series would go in before the upcoming release.
> 
> It's too much for this release (which is hopefully days away).
> 
> I suspect that even after thorough review, there will be a few bugs that
> this series uncovers.

Just keep in mind that we then start with a few regressions around
encrypted disks (leaving them mostly unusable). Or do you plan to merge
the bug-fixing part into the stable tree later on?

Jan

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