greg@xxxxxxxxx said: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:35:00PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: >> With USB, you just can't *ever* get it right. There is no limit on how >> long a device has to tell you its there. I wish this weren't the case, >> but our good friends in the USB world tell us that we have been lucky >> to have had USB consoles work as long as they have. > Lucky? You all are _more_ than lucky. USB consoles was a bad hack > written on a drunken dare. I'm still constantly amazed that the thing > even works at all, let alone the fact that people are actually using > it :) I'm missing the key idea. Is the problem that the hardware is broken by design and might never say "console is over here"? If so, why don't I hear lots of complaints about plugging something in and the system never seeing it? How does booting from a USB disk work? Or is the problem that the USB hardware is so complicated that the driver needs an environment with interrupts and threads and whatever which may not be available when you want a console for low level debugging? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
