Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mux: fix ctrl-a b again

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 18/04/2018 12:36, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> 
> +            if (chr == NULL || chr->be) {
> +                name = g_strdup_printf("discarding-serial%d", i);
> +                chr = qemu_chr_new(name, "null");
> +            } else {
> +                name = g_strdup_printf("serial%d", i);
> +            }
> 
> Why do you check if chr->be ? In case of a mux chardev, it may already
> have an active frontend (yeah be is CharBackend which is the frontend,
> I still can't grasp that either, please Paolo change your mind! ;).

CharBackend is not the frontend, it is *used* by the front-end.  It is
the qemu_chr_* functions that are named wrong (they're named according
to the user rather than the recipient).

Paolo