[fedora-virt] F19: replacing chardev patches with upstream ones

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:27:09AM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Fedora has carried flow control patches for qemu chardevs since a very
> long time now.  They weren't upstream, and they were required for
> spice, usb-redir to work properly and not freeze the guest.
> 
> Upstream qemu has now merged an alternative implementation of the same
> concept, and most of the bugs have been shaken out upstream (we don't
> know of any known bugs now).  So I'm of the view we should replace
> the older patches in F19's qemu with the backport of the newer,
> upstream ones.
> 
> Is this fine?  I can work with Cole / Hans who have been keeping the
> older patches uptodate on Fedora to replace the patches.

Would this affect virtio-serial (ie. libguestfs)?

Rich.

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