Re: 2.6.0-test4 - PL2303 OOPS - see also 2.4.22: OOPS on disconnect PL2303 adapter

From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 13:54:06 EST


On Tue, 2003-09-02 01:39:08 +0800, Michael Frank <mhf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message <200309020139.08248.mhf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> PL2303 is used to connect the serial console on a classic serial port
> of a test machine. HW nandshaking is used
> The test machine reboots once a minute and dumps lots of messages

Do you use serial (USB) console to access the box or to capture some
(unrelated) Oops? If you try to to the later, you're most probably off
because USB needs a lot of infrastructure to work (think interrupts!)
which may not be available at Oops time...

MfG, JBG

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