serial driver and lirc

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Mon Aug 18 15:12:26 UTC 2003


On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:12AM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> However, for that to work, the serial driver needs to be compiled as a
> module.  AFAIK, in Red Hat kernels it's always compiled in.
> 
> The only thing I could think of that would require it to be compiled in,
> is kernel debugging over a serial link.

Serial console from initial boot is in fact critical to our ability
to debug user problems.  You have answered your own question.

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