Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-02 Thread Ian Molton
Anthony Liguori wrote: > I'm all for doing things incrementally but there has to be a big picture > that the incremental bit fits into otherwise you end up with a bunch of > random features that don't work together well. Well, if you just add stuff without ever changing anything that went before,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/01/2010 04:44 PM, Ian Molton wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I went back and looked at the last series and found my feedback. I had suggested that instead of automatically reconnecting, a mechanism should be added for a user to initiate a reconnect. This sounds useful Addi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Ian Molton
Anthony Liguori wrote: > I went back and looked at the last series and found my feedback. I had > suggested that instead of automatically reconnecting, a mechanism should > be added for a user to initiate a reconnect. This sounds useful > Additionally, we should emit events upon disconnect thro

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/01/2010 10:12 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:25:27 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: On 02/01/2010 07:34 AM, Ian Molton wrote: Add a reconnect option that allows sockets to reconnect (after a specified delay) to the specified server. This makes the virtio

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Luiz Capitulino
On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:25:27 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 02/01/2010 07:34 AM, Ian Molton wrote: > > Add a reconnect option that allows sockets to reconnect (after a > > specified delay) to the specified server. This makes the virtio-rng driver > > useful in production environments where

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 02/01/2010 07:34 AM, Ian Molton wrote: Add a reconnect option that allows sockets to reconnect (after a specified delay) to the specified server. This makes the virtio-rng driver useful in production environments where the EGD server may need to be restarted. Signed-off-by: Ian Molton

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] socket: Add a reconnect option.

2010-02-01 Thread Ian Molton
Add a reconnect option that allows sockets to reconnect (after a specified delay) to the specified server. This makes the virtio-rng driver useful in production environments where the EGD server may need to be restarted. Signed-off-by: Ian Molton --- qemu-char.c | 159