Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 04/11] contrib: add vhost-user-input

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 03:19:57PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Add a vhost-user input backend example, based on virtio-input-host
> device. It takes an evdev path as argument, and can be associated with
> a vhost-user-input device via a UNIX socket:
> 
> $ vhost-user-input -p /dev/input/eventX -s /tmp/vui.sock
> 
> $ qemu ... -chardev socket,id=vuic,path=/tmp/vui.sock
>   -device vhost-user-input-pci,chardev=vuic
> 
> This example is intentionally not included in $TOOLS, to not be built
> and installed by default.

I think we should build it by default, so it doesn't bitrot,
even if we don't install it by default.

> +static int unix_sock_new(char *path)
> +{

Move to common code?

cheers,
  Gerd