Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: Add support for multiple ports forgeneric guest and host communication

[Alan Cox]

> 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
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