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On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 17:05 +0000, Burton, Ross wrote:
> I've had people from the past

What are you suggesting? ;-)

>  suggest that this is still useful for deeply embedded environments
> where a serial line is the only form of communication, so I'm
> retracting this and will instead clean up dependencies so it doesn't
> end up in all images.

To be clear, if you have a device you're doing board bringup on and
serial works but network doesn't this does provide a useful way to get
files in/out. That isn't an entirely unknown situation for OE users. It
would also potentially allow us to improve the serial test runner used
by poky-tiny.

Cheers,

Richard