Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/13] hw/mips/mips_malta: Don't create "null" chardevs for serial devices

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 04/20/2018 11:52 AM, 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>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

> ---
>  hw/mips/mips_malta.c | 5 -----
>  1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/mips/mips_malta.c b/hw/mips/mips_malta.c
> index f6513a4fd5..49fe7a0a72 100644
> --- a/hw/mips/mips_malta.c
> +++ b/hw/mips/mips_malta.c
> @@ -1056,11 +1056,6 @@ void mips_malta_init(MachineState *machine)
>  
>      /* FPGA */
>  
> -    /* Make sure the second serial port is associated with a device. */
> -    if (!serial_hds[2]) {
> -        serial_hds[2] = qemu_chr_new("fpga-uart", "null");
> -    }
> -
>      /* The CBUS UART is attached to the MIPS CPU INT2 pin, ie interrupt 4 */
>      malta_fpga_init(system_memory, FPGA_ADDRESS, cbus_irq, serial_hds[2]);
>  
>