[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.4 0/5] chardev: Add IRC char driver

[Max Reitz]

This series adds a long-missing IRC character device driver to qemu. See
patch 1 for an explanation why you should have been missing it.

To make it short: IRC is a very well tested and more reliable, social,
human-friendly, and ubiquitous[1] communication interface than any of
the other character devices qemu has to offer.

"Social?", you ask? "Exactly!", I say. Again, see patch 1.

"But why do we need 'social'?" Because what is it that separates qemu
from the other well-known type-2 hypervisors? Besides simply being
better (of course!), it is free software which is written by and
maintained by a community. It is social.

Now we need to capitalize on this very fact even further, not only
embracing it in qemu development, but also in qemu usage.

Already, everyone can work on the qemu project.

In the future, everyone will be able to work with a qemu instance.

This is what this patch series embodies. The future is now.

What a time to be alive.


Oh, and don't forget the reliability and ubiquity.


Finally, there has been no encryption whatsoever in qemu's character
devices so far. For IRC, SSL is a well-known and commonly implemented
client-to-server encryption method (patch 3), and this series will
furthermore introduce a widely used and easy to implement, yet secure
enough even for military standards, end-to-end encryption (patch 4).


[1] Google search for:
     - irc: 1.27e+8 results
     - tcp: 1.08e+8 results
     - udp: 6.28e+7 results
     - telnet: 2.29e+7 results
     - stdio: 9.04e+6 results
     - "unix sockets": 1.37e+5 results


Max Reitz (5):
  chardev: Add IRC char driver
  chardev/irc: Add sockfd option
  chardev/irc: Add SSL support
  chardev/irc: Add end-to-end encryption
  Documentation: Document IRC char driver

 configure        |  43 +++-
 qapi-schema.json |  32 +++
 qemu-char.c      | 714 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 qemu-options.hx  |  28 +++
 4 files changed, 806 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

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