Re: [GIT PULL] TTY/Serial driver updates for 6.3-rc1

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 01:30:58PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It's probably most legacy by now - it's a long time since I saw a
> serial port being used outside of management ports, and even those are
> often ethernet these days.

For what it's worth, in the VM world (e.g., qemu, AWS, GCP, Azure,
Linode, etc.)  serial consoles are quite common way of debugging VM's,
and as an emergency login path when the networking has been screwed up
for some reason....

						- Ted