Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/13] hw/mips/boston.c: Don't create "null" chardevs for serial devices

[Thomas Huth]

On 20.04.2018 16:52, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Following commit 12051d82f004024, UART devices should handle
> being passed a NULL pointer chardev, so we don't need to
> create "null" backends in board code. Remove the code that
>  does this and updates serial_hds[].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/mips/boston.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/mips/boston.c b/hw/mips/boston.c
> index fb23161b33..14f0f6673b 100644
> --- a/hw/mips/boston.c
> +++ b/hw/mips/boston.c
> @@ -505,10 +505,6 @@ static void boston_mach_init(MachineState *machine)
>                            "boston-platregs", 0x1000);
>      memory_region_add_subregion_overlap(sys_mem, 0x17ffd000, platreg, 0);
>  
> -    if (!serial_hds[0]) {
> -        serial_hds[0] = qemu_chr_new("serial0", "null");
> -    }
> -
>      s->uart = serial_mm_init(sys_mem, 0x17ffe000, 2,
>                               get_cps_irq(s->cps, 3), 10000000,
>                               serial_hds[0], DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN);
> 

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>