Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: returning 0 from put_chars is not an error

Scott Wood
2009-10-15T19:33:07Z

Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> About the backends, there are some that spin until the text is delivered (e.g.
> virtio) , others can drop (e.g. iucv is a connection oriented protocol and it
> will (and has to) drop if there is no connection).

Sure, dropping due to not having a connection makes sense. That's
different from merely being busy. Can the iucv code tell the difference
between those two states?

-Scott