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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:15:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090917141531.4d2489d4__32804.5131908313$1253193444$gmane$org@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyz1en5f.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>

> Well, really fundamentally, this is just a reliable full-duplex byte
> stream, with connect and hangup notification.  To me, that sounds more
> like TCP with an address family almost, but not quite AF_UNIX, but that
> case was thrown out of court long ago, so here we are.

Well the tty one has also been thrown out of court because its even dumber

To be honest it sounds more to me like either a pipe or a char device, or
in most cases like sysfs.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-17 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 113+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11 14:13 Multiple ports support for virtio_console; major number for dev Amit Shah
2009-09-11 14:13 ` [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication Amit Shah
2009-09-11 14:13 ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 16:00   ` Alan Cox
2009-09-11 16:00   ` Alan Cox
2009-09-11 16:38     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 17:26       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-11 17:33         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 17:33         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-11 17:35           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-16 10:23             ` Alan Cox
2009-09-16 22:20               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-17 13:06                 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-17 13:15                   ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 13:41                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-17 13:41                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-17 15:57                       ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 15:57                       ` Alan Cox
2009-09-17 16:46                         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-17 16:46                         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-17 13:15                   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-09-17 13:06                 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-18 16:00                 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 17:55                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-18 17:55                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-18 17:57                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-18 18:02                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-18 18:02                       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-19  7:04                       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-19  7:04                       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-18 17:57                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-09-18 20:11                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-18 20:11                     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-19  7:01                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-19  7:01                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-21 10:06                     ` Alan Cox
2009-09-21 10:06                     ` Alan Cox
2009-09-18 16:00                 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-16 22:20               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-16 10:23             ` Alan Cox
2009-09-11 17:35           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-11 17:26       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-11 16:38     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 12:37     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 12:37     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 12:57       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 12:57       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 13:03         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 13:03         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-15 13:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 13:37           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 14:08         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-15 14:08           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-15 14:09           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-15 14:09             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-22  2:44     ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-22  2:44     ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-22 15:45       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-22 15:45       ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29  9:24         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29  9:24         ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 10:09           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 10:33             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 11:02               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 11:40                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 11:40                 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 11:02               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 10:33             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 10:09           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:03           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:03           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:20             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 12:20             ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 12:56               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 12:56               ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 13:09                 ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:31                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-30 17:13                     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-30 17:13                     ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  8:17                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  8:17                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  8:47                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  8:47                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  8:55                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  8:55                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01  9:00                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:04                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 10:04                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01  9:00                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:28                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:28                       ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 10:42                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 10:42                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 11:58                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 11:58                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 12:04                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-01 13:50                             ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 13:50                             ` Amit Shah
2009-10-01 12:04                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-05 14:05                         ` Amit Shah
2009-10-05 14:05                           ` Amit Shah
2009-10-06  6:49                           ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-06  6:49                             ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-10-06  6:55                             ` Amit Shah
2009-10-06  6:55                               ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:31                   ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-09-29 13:09                 ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:11   ` Rusty Russell
2009-09-29 13:24     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:24     ` Amit Shah
2009-09-29 13:11   ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-09-09  8:11 Multiple Port Support for virtio-console Amit Shah
2009-09-09  8:12 ` [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for generic guest and host communication Amit Shah
2009-09-09  8:12 ` Amit Shah

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