Bug#825931: s390-netdevice virtio interface choice misleading
On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:53:36PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote:
> On 10/26/2016 05:13 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Currently s390-netdevice in the code supports following networktypes:
> > * qeth
> > * ctc
> > * iucv
> > * virtio
> >
> > virtio is, in fact, a no-op.
>
> Yup.
>
> > iucv refers to "IUCV network device" which has been deprecated at
> > least since October 2005 (linux v2.6+)
>
> I guess IUCV is only deprecated for networking, not for console access,
> right? I would not mind dropping it then.
It is the IUCV network device (netiucv device driver) that is deprecated.
The HVC IUCV (console access), as well as, the AF_IUCV (socket-based IUCV
communication) is supported.
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