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[PULL,13/17] doc: Mention chardev:id in available devices for -serial

Message ID 1388182050-10270-14-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru
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Michael Tokarev Dec. 27, 2013, 10:07 p.m. UTC 
From: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>

It is possible to pre-define a character device with the -chardev option
and reference its id as serial device. The man page does not mention this
feature.

Use case: Use stdio as serial, but do not terminate VM on Ctrl-C
          -chardev stdio,id=mystdio,signal=off -serial chardev:mystdio

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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 qemu-options.hx |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index bcfe9ea..56e5fdf 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -2419,6 +2419,8 @@  vc:80Cx24C
 No device is allocated.
 @item null
 void device
+@item chardev:@var{id}
+Use a named character device defined with the @code{-chardev} option.
 @item /dev/XXX
 [Linux only] Use host tty, e.g. @file{/dev/ttyS0}. The host serial port
 parameters are set according to the emulated ones.