Hi.

On Wednesday 14 June 2006 10:18, Greg KH wrote:
> 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.

Yeah. That converter is far more useful for being the debugger instead of the 
debuggee. I should have thought more carefully before speaking. Sorry.

Nigel
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