Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

Greg KH
2006-06-14T00:18:44Z

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