Re: [Qemu-discuss] quick pointer on adding a new chardev

[Herb Peyerl]

> On Feb 17, 2017, at 10:17 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> If your device is already present then you don't want to
> try to use -device (which would be attempting to add
> a second instance of it to the system).

so then, as you say, I should be using ‘-global’ somehow instead to bind it to 
a ‘-chardev socket’  and I don’t need to “DEFINE_PROP_CHR()” and so forth?  

I apparently don’t understand this as well as I thought I did.