linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:53:58 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	David VomLehn <dvomlehn@...co.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:35:00PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> With USB, you just can't *ever* get it right. There is no limit on how
> long a device has to tell you its there. I wish this weren't the case,
> but our good friends in the USB world tell us that we have been lucky
> to have had USB consoles work as long as they have.

Lucky?  You all are _more_ than lucky.  USB consoles was a bad hack
written on a drunken dare.  I'm still constantly amazed that the thing
even works at all, let alone the fact that people are actually using it :)

The things I agree to over beers, you would think I would learn...

thanks,

greg k-h
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/