From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:18:44 -0700 Message-ID: <20060614001844.GA31458@kroah.com> References: <200606131620.45156.david-b@pacbell.net> <200606141000.12260.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606141000.12260.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: David Brownell , Linus Torvalds , linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org 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 ... specificall= y 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 i= t'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