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