On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 03:16:08PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Hi, > > On 08.03.2007 14:48, Russell King wrote: > > As I've said already, having a console on the same port as your application > > program is just asking for trouble. All bets are off - the kernel _will_ > > corrupt your data stream in random places. > > > > Don't do it - it will _NEVER_ be reliable. > > > > Never, ever, mix kernel consoles with application serial ports. > > Unless you want two machines to monitor each other via serial console and > each of them has only one serial port. It's not perfect, but it works well > enough despite all claims to the contrary.
That's fine - you're not sending application specific data which could be corrupted by an inopportune kernel message. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
