[PATCH] hvc_console: returning 0 from put_chars is not an error
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Oct 16 06:32:54 EST 2009
Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> About the backends, there are some that spin until the text is delivered (e.g.
> virtio) , others can drop (e.g. iucv is a connection oriented protocol and it
> will (and has to) drop if there is no connection).
Sure, dropping due to not having a connection makes sense. That's
different from merely being busy. Can the iucv code tell the difference
between those two states?
-Scott
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