linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1

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Date:   Sat, 25 Feb 2023 18:40:12 -0500
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Tharun Kumar P <tharunkumar.pasumarthi@...rochip.com>,
        Kumaravel Thiagarajan <kumaravel.thiagarajan@...rochip.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 01:30:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It's probably most legacy by now - it's a long time since I saw a
> serial port being used outside of management ports, and even those are
> often ethernet these days.

For what it's worth, in the VM world (e.g., qemu, AWS, GCP, Azure,
Linode, etc.)  serial consoles are quite common way of debugging VM's,
and as an emergency login path when the networking has been screwed up
for some reason....

						- Ted