Am 31.08.2018 um 09:30 schrieb Michal Kubecek:
Ah, right. But it's also something to think about, given vast majority of today's notebooks has no serial ports and vast majority of consumer desktops has them only as motherboard headers (so that you need to buy an extra bracket to actually use them).
I even bought a PCI card some years ago to be able to use my serial dcf77 receiver for NTP ;)
But I'm afraid having the driver as a module would harm debugging boot issues using serial console so it will be probably safer to keep "Y" here.
Exactly. At least on SLES :-) I really like to be able to use "console=ttyS0" with an IPMI connected virtual serial port on our servers to avoid having to use horrible .NET (or even worse: Java) consoles via windows termial servers ;-) Oh, and for debugging VMs and stuff in QEMU / KVM, the always built in serial console support is also nice. Actually the best thing would probably be to enhance that driver to only create devices for ports, that are actually available. But then I think only very brave (and bored) people would really dare to touch this code ;-) -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org