Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752578Ab3EHDph (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 23:45:37 -0400 Received: from mail-gh0-f170.google.com ([209.85.160.170]:37865 "EHLO mail-gh0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751950Ab3EHDpG convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 May 2013 23:45:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 07 May 2013 00:02:13 -0500 From: Rob Landley Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] Documentation: virtio: Add emergency write (emerg_wr) config register in virtio console. To: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, anup.patel@linaro.org, amit.shah@redhat.com, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar References: <1367842791-30285-1-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> <1367842791-30285-3-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <1367842791-30285-3-git-send-email-pranavkumar@linaro.org> (from pranavkumar@linaro.org on Mon May 6 07:19:50 2013) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.11 Message-Id: <1367902933.18069.212@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1215 Lines: 32 On 05/06/2013 07:19:50 AM, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote: > Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar > Signed-off-by: Anup Patel > --- > Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt | 8 +++++++- > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt > b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt > index 0d6ec85..3ca38f8 100644 > --- a/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt > +++ b/Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt > @@ -1927,11 +1927,16 @@ Ports 2 onwards only if > VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_MULTIPORT is set > ports; configuration fields nr_ports and max_nr_ports are > valid and control virtqueues will be used. > > + VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_EMERG_WRITE(2) Device has support for emergency > + write. Configuration filed emerg_wr is valid. Emergency? Really? Out of morbid curiosity, what would constitute an _emergency_ in a virtual machine logging context? Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/