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virtio: console: Enable call to hvc_remove() on console port remove
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This call was disabled as hot-unplugging one virtconsole port led to
another virtconsole port freezing.

Upon testing it again, this now works, so enable it.

In addition, a bug was found in qemu wherein removing a port of one type
caused the guest output from another port to stop working.  I doubt it
was just this bug that caused it (since disabling the hvc_remove() call
did allow other ports to continue working), but since it's all solved
now, we're fine with hot-unplugging of virtconsole ports.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Amit Shah authored and Rusty Russell committed Apr 21, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -1280,18 +1280,7 @@ static void unplug_port(struct port *port)
spin_lock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock);
list_del(&port->cons.list);
spin_unlock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock);
#if 0
/*
* hvc_remove() not called as removing one hvc port
* results in other hvc ports getting frozen.
*
* Once this is resolved in hvc, this functionality
* will be enabled. Till that is done, the -EPIPE
* return from get_chars() above will help
* hvc_console.c to clean up on ports we remove here.
*/
hvc_remove(port->cons.hvc);
#endif
}

/* Remove unused data this port might have received. */
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