Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] char: write callback, virtio-console: flow control

2010-04-15 Thread Amit Shah
On (Thu) Apr 15 2010 [13:04:40], Paul Brook wrote: > > This series lets interested callers ask for an -EAGAIN return from the > > chardev backends (only unix and tcp sockets as of now) to implement > > their own flow control. > > As mentioned previously, I think this is a bad idea. The device has

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] char: write callback, virtio-console: flow control

2010-04-15 Thread Paul Brook
> This series lets interested callers ask for an -EAGAIN return from the > chardev backends (only unix and tcp sockets as of now) to implement > their own flow control. As mentioned previously, I think this is a bad idea. The device has no useful way of determining when to transmit the rest of t

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/4] char: write callback, virtio-console: flow control

2010-04-15 Thread Amit Shah
Hello, This series lets interested callers ask for an -EAGAIN return from the chardev backends (only unix and tcp sockets as of now) to implement their own flow control. Support for other backend types is easy to add, I'll do that in a separate series if this is acceptable. Amit Shah (4): char