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From: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hvc_console: returning 0 from put_chars is not an error
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:49:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091016084924.GB4234@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD778E6.7020806@freescale.com>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 02:32:54PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> 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?

The states are handled by the hvc_iucv itself:
If the hvc_iucv code has a connection established, terminal or console data
are queued and sent to the peer. If the state is disconnected, terminal and
console data is discarded internally.

- Hendrik

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-16  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1255557226-4403-1-git-send-email-timur@freescale.com>
2009-10-15 11:05 ` [PATCH] hvc_console: returning 0 from put_chars is not an error Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-15 16:09   ` Scott Wood
2009-10-15 18:41     ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-15 18:55       ` Timur Tabi
2009-10-15 18:57       ` Scott Wood
2009-10-15 19:26         ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-15 19:32           ` Scott Wood
2009-10-16  8:49             ` Hendrik Brueckner [this message]
2009-10-17 23:17               ` Timur Tabi
2009-10-16  4:46         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-10-16 15:33           ` Scott Wood
2009-10-16 18:03             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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