Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions

[Mike Smith]

> At 05:06 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> >Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the
> >installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet).
> 
> Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and 
> later hook one up if need be.

Since you can't safely hot-plug the PC keyboard, that wouldn't be very 
smart.  The only way to auto-detect the use of a serial console is to 
look for a keyboard; if one isn't plugged in, there's no local console, 
end of story.

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