Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv3 2/2] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:31 +0200 |
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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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