Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:15:31 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
       Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports for
 generic guest and host communication
Message-ID: <20090917141531.4d2489d4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87tyz1en5f.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org>
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
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 703
Lines: 16

> 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
--
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/