On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote:
> > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot
> > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using
> > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port?
>
> The driver itself has to provide support for serial console. If the USB
> serial driver doesn't (I don't know) it won't work. Check the config
> options for USB serial, if it doesn't offer an option for console on USB
> serial port then you're out of luck.
>
> Unless the USB serial driver in some strange way hooks into the standard
> serial driver, but then someone more knowledgeable should answer that
> question.
Nope, it doesn't specifically support the CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE with all
of the register_console code, etc., so this will not work, sorry.
But it's something that I would gladly take a patch for :)
greg k-h
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