linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] input: evdev: Indicate buffer overrun with SYN

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Message-ID: <AANLkTincFzn7Q+r48LLfkM9taVk3ROmtZDMxvFiBR4m5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:10:49 -0700
From:	Jeffrey Brown <jeffbrown@...roid.com>
To:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...gle.com>
Cc:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] input: evdev: Indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED.

Hi Dan,

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...gle.com> wrote:
> Would it be useful (and practical) to count the number of currently dropped
> packets and report this count in drop.value?
> Thanks,
> Dan

I don't think it's worth the effort.  It's not clear to me what a
client would actually do with that value.  It doesn't matter much if
10 events or 1000 events were dropped, the net effect is that the
client is out of sync and may need to flush some state in order to
catch up.

Jeff.
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