From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox 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 Message-ID: <20090917141531.4d2489d4__32804.5131908313$1253193444$gmane$org@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1252678386-17404-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <1252678386-17404-2-git-send-email-amit.shah@redhat.com> <20090911170010.34c80f2d@linux.intel.com> <20090911163806.GB25535@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4AAA8838.1080106@codemonkey.ws> <20090911173307.GB27046@amit-x200.redhat.com> <4AAA8A56.3040707@codemonkey.ws> <20090916112332.6bf981a5@linux.intel.com> <4AB164A0.8000402@codemonkey.ws> <87tyz1en5f.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <87tyz1en5f.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Markus Armbruster Cc: Amit Shah , virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anthony Liguori , Alan Cox List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.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