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On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 07:57 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
  so is it a fair statement that, pedantically, i might as well just
> define everything in terms of SERIAL_CONSOLES and think that way?
> 

Yes.  SERIAL_CONSOLE predates SERIAL_CONSOLES and remains supported in
the configuration for backwards compatibility.  New configurations and
recipes should probably use SERIAL_CONSOLES and ignore SERIAL_CONSOLE
entirely.

p.