On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:57 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: .../...
> The hypervisor gives us a busy return, so we could retry a number of > times instead of dropping it on the floor. We'd need to do it in the > hvc_console driver - the tty drivers share the same backend > functions so we can't hide it in the pseries put_chars function. For kernel console, I don't see why not wait forever ... If the underlying backend really lost the connection it can always return a negative error no ? Or we could have "well defined" return codes for "wait forever" vs. "drop this" ... maybe return -EAGAIN. Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
