On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:53:36PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 10/26/2016 05:13 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Currently s390-netdevice in the code supports following networktypes: > > * qeth > > * ctc > > * iucv > > * virtio > > > > virtio is, in fact, a no-op. > > Yup. > > > iucv refers to "IUCV network device" which has been deprecated at > > least since October 2005 (linux v2.6+) > > I guess IUCV is only deprecated for networking, not for console access, > right? I would not mind dropping it then.
It is the IUCV network device (netiucv device driver) that is deprecated. The HVC IUCV (console access), as well as, the AF_IUCV (socket-based IUCV communication) is supported.
