Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] spice: add chardev

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:53:10PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
> >>>+//#define SPICE_QEMU_CHAR_USE_IOCTL
> >>
> >>Why is this disabled?
> >>Does it depend on the chardev patches from Amit?
> >>
> >
> >There was a long discussion that concluded we don't want IOCTL's at all,
> >and that there should be some other mechanism for connection state
> >communication between the two sides. Meanwhile I found out I don't need
> >these (I don't remember exactly what I used instead, but basically just
> >the regular results of write/read).
> 
> Ok, so when it is obsolete now it can be dropped altogether I guess?

ok, I'll remove it from the patch.

> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
>