Hi,

I apologize for coming into this late, but could you give a quick explanation 
of why a
new variable is needed?  In other words, what is wrong with something like:
SERIAL_CONSOLE="-L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200"

  SAA

On Dec 2, 2010, at 5:38 AM, Matteo Facchinetti wrote:

> USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE is similar to SERIAL_CONSOLE but SERIAL_CONSOLE variabile 
> isn't described too.
> 
> IMHO could be need to add a new paragraph describing all kind of CONSOLE 
> available for machine conf file.
> 
> Where's the right place to add these variabiles in usermanual?
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/26/2010 06:23 PM, Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> Where's the patch that adds this new var to the usermanual?
>> 
>> On 26-11-10 17:54, [email protected] wrote:
>>   
>>> From: Matteo Facchinetti<[email protected]>
>>> 
>>> There are many evaluationboard that use mini-usb port like as
>>> a serial port + power supply. Using it as serial console have
>>> to force getty with no need for carrier detect.
>>> 
>>> Signed-off-by: Matteo Facchinetti<[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  recipes/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.86.bb |    5 +++++
>>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/recipes/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.86.bb 
>>> b/recipes/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.86.bb
>>> index 6ab5290..c34cbc9 100644
>>> --- a/recipes/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.86.bb
>>> +++ b/recipes/sysvinit/sysvinit_2.86.bb
>>> @@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ do_install () {
>>>     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/inittab ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>>     if [ ! -z "${SERIAL_CONSOLE}" ]; then
>>>             echo "S:2345:respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty ${SERIAL_CONSOLE}">> 
>>>  ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>> +   else
>>> +           
>>> +           if [ ! -z "${USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE}" ]; then
>>> +                   echo "S:2345:respawn:${base_sbindir}/getty -L 
>>> ${USB_SERIAL_CONSOLE}">>  ${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>> +           fi
>>>     fi
>>>     if [ "${USE_VT}" = "1" ]; then
>>>             cat<<EOF>>${D}${sysconfdir}/inittab
>>>     
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