Re: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Alessandro Rubini <address@hidden>
Subject: Serial (was: patch for the commands chapter)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:35:15 +0200

> But the user may not run a local console when the "terminal" command
> is executed from the configuration file.

  You are completely misunderstanding that. When the user runs
"terminal serial", the user must press a key from a _remote_ host.

> And if the user is
> interactive and requests "terminal serial" without having a serial
> connection it's user's fault.

  This is also a policy, isn't this?

> Hmm... or is the "press any key" displayed to the serial console?

  Of course.

> so, things are less bad than they could be, but still bad. Why should
> it stop there (and by default it stops for an infinite time) before
> going on with its tasks?

  I have already told you the reason.

> Does the "halt" or "reboot" command ask to enter any key? Obviously
> not.

  Why do you want to compare it with "halt" or "reboot"?

> >From my reading of the code, at timeout expiration GRUB resets the
> default terminal. So setting the timeout to 0 means "no serial console".

  That's wrong. I'm tired from explaining the internals. Try to use
it. It is a bad thing to conclude something without any actual test.

> BTW: the exchange of "speed" and "port" is from 2000/09/01, the
> original bug was having two "port" and no "speed", but the fix was
> incorrect (from cvs diff).

  You are right. That's my mistake.  

Okuji