On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > The char layer has been growing some nasty warts for some time now as we ask > it > to do things it was never intended on doing. It's been long over due for an > overhaul and its become evident to me that we need to address this first > before > adding any more features to the char layer. > > This series is the start at sanitizing the char layer. It effectively turns > the char layer into an internal pipe. It supports flow control using an > intermediate ring queue for each direction. > > This series is an RFC because I don't think we should merge the series until > we > completely convert the old style flow control users to the new style.
The terms 'back-end' and 'front-end' could be improved. How about just 'device' or 'hw' and 'chrdev'? The architecture could be described in for example qemu-tech.texi. > One particularly nasty area is the mux device. I'm not entirely sure yet how > to preceed there. > > >
