[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Allow console input to be disabled

Wolfgang Denk
2008-08-09T23:16:36Z

Dear Jerry Van Baren,

In message <489AEDF7.9000400@ge.com> you wrote:
>
> For what it is worth, I'm with Haavard - it seems useful. WRT the
> dangerous part - it's intended use is for debug, so presumably it will

It may be intended for debug, but it's available there without warning
for the end user.

> be the developer that locks himself out of the console and will have the
> tools to break back in. From that POV, it isn't any more dangerous than
> all the other ways a user/developer can brick a board (starting with
> erasing flash ;-).

I think this one is a bit nastier. It's like this rope hanging out of
a black box labeled "silencer". The label doesn't mention that it
goes "KABOOOOM!" first, before there is a big silence (and a cloud of
dust and a pile of debris).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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