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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux USB Mailing List <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E8FF80.1020901@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090417213148.GA27825@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net>

David VomLehn wrote:
>>  
> +	consoledelay=mS	[KNL] Wait up to mS milliseconds for the a preferred
> +			console to be registered, then continue. Useful for
> +			systems where a console may not be plugged in, such as
> +			for USB serial devices.
> +

Pet peeve:

The symbol for millisecond is "ms".  mS is a unit of conductance, 
millisiemens.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-17 21:31 [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3 David VomLehn
2009-04-17 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-17 23:12   ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 21:51   ` Alan Stern
2009-04-20 22:14     ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 22:35       ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:50         ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 23:23           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:53         ` Greg KH
2009-04-20 22:29     ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:35       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-25  8:16 ` Pavel Machek

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