Re: [PATCH 0/2] system: Fix handling of '-serial none -serial something'

From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org, "Bohdan Kostiv" <bogdan.kostiv@gmail.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] system: Fix handling of '-serial none -serial something'
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 13:35:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_GdUWy_UoTBUDc0zSj5WVWRCvu6QS0ZZ+GRnbFaJ_F4w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240122163607.459769-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>

On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 at 16:36, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> (This patchset fixes a bug reported by Bohdan Kostiv at
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAA3Sv1LQ8yDUNLCB5WqLVZjsHffrU0uSbL_YYJW_m+Db2PhEeQ@mail.gmail.com/
>  -- my patch 1 avoids a bug in his suggested change, and
> patch 2 is new, improving the documentation.)
>
> Currently if the user passes multiple -serial options on the command
> line, we mostly treat those as applying to the different serial
> devices in order, so that for example
>  -serial stdio -serial file:filename
> will connect the first serial port to stdio and the second to the
> named file.
>
> The exception to this is the '-serial none' serial device type.  This
> means "don't allocate this serial device", but a bug means that
> following -serial options are not correctly handled, so that
>  -serial none -serial stdio
> has the unexpected effect that stdio is connected to the first serial
> port, not the second.

I'll take this series via target-arm.next.

thanks
-- PMM