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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 3/7] char: add a QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_GC


From: Markus Armbruster
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 3/7] char: add a QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_GCONTEXT flag
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2018 06:45:18 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:

> QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_GCONTEXT declares the character device can switch
> GMainContext.
>
> Assert we don't switch context when the character device doesn't
> provide this feature.  Character device users must not violate this
> restriction.  In particular, user configurations that violate them
> must be rejected.
>
> Existing frontend that rely on context switching would now assert() if
> the backend doesn't allow it (instead of silently producing undesired
> events in the default context). Following patches improve the
> situation by reporting an error earlier instead, on the frontend side.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>



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