From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54123) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBhOU-0003wj-Dd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:57:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBhOP-0003ak-19 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:57:06 -0400 Received: from mail-ot0-x231.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4003:c0f::231]:45746) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fBhOO-0003aE-SI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 09:57:00 -0400 Received: by mail-ot0-x231.google.com with SMTP id w4-v6so29498148ote.12 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:57:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180420145249.32435-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> References: <20180420145249.32435-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org> From: Peter Maydell Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:56:39 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] Drop compile time limit on number of serial ports List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: QEMU Developers Cc: Paolo Bonzini , "Michael S . Tsirkin" , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu=2DDaud=C3=A9?= , =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6kgTHVyZWF1?= , "patches@linaro.org" On 20 April 2018 at 15:52, Peter Maydell wrote: > For many years, QEMU has had a compile time restriction on how > many serial port devices you can create and configure with the > -serial argument. This is 4, largely because for x86 PC the > traditional number of ISA serial devices is 4, and nobody's > ever changed the limit since. > > This patchset drops the compile time limit. Applied to master, with minor tweak in patch 13. I only realised when I came back to here that I'd forgotten about checkpatch's preference for not zero-initializing static globals; I'll send a fixup patch for that. thanks -- PMM