[gpm]Re: gpm 1.19.4 X Raw Hide version

[Nico Schottelius]

> >> If console is serial with a kernel option,
> >> gpm prints garbage to the console and loops."
> >
> > That's not good :)
> >
> > 1.) But if I understood it right, the problem is the following:
> > If there is a serial console we may not write on it the normal way.
> > --> either we should ignore it
> > --> or we need to write to it in a way it's usable.
>
> You should not pretend to cut text from the screen at the other hand
> of the serial cable. Or did I misunderstand the issue?

I understood it another way:

In some cases we write to /dev/console to report warnings/errors
and that does gpm not like.
Who understood it the right way ?

> BTW: I'm not dealing with Frederic's comments. I'll leave them to the
> maintainer :)

I will answer them the day after tomorrow. It's late now
and tomorrow in the morning I am gonna leave until Saturday..

Nico