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 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
