On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:00:08AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Wednesday 14 June 2006 09:46, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, David Brownell wrote: > > > Here's a related patch (well, "hack") I found helpful ... specifically to > > > help let _serial_ consoles be more useful. > > > > I just checked. > > > > I think exactly _two_ of the six machines I have around my desk have > > serial ports, and of those two, one is permanently turned off because it's > > old, noisy, and just not interesting. > > > > Maybe I'm more progressive than most, but I personally consider serial > > lines pretty much dead. > > Usb to serial converters are not completely unheard of, though. My old > omnibook even came with one. It's the one bit I still use :) But you need interrupts to work for usb to serial devices, and the whole usb stack up and running. Even though you can get console messages through these devices, it's a bad hack and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. thanks, greg k-h
