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SubjectRe: [PATCHv3 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
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On Thursday 20 August 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > The errors from the socket (or chardev, as that was the
> > start of the argument) should still fit into the categories
> > that I mentioned, either they can be handled by the host
> > kernel, or they are fatal.
>
> Hmm, are you sure? Imagine a device going away while socket is bound to
> it. You get -ENXIO. It's not fatal in a sense that you can bind the
> socket to another device and go on, right?

Right. Not fatal in that sense, but fatal in the sense that I
can no longer transmit other frames until you recover. I think
we both meant the same here.

Arnd <><


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