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From: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] Wait for console to become available, ver 3
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:12:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090417231253.GA8449@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E8FF80.1020901@zytor.com>

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:15:28PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> David VomLehn wrote:
>>>  
>> +	consoledelay=mS	[KNL] Wait up to mS milliseconds for the a preferred
>> +			console to be registered, then continue. Useful for
>> +			systems where a console may not be plugged in, such as
>> +			for USB serial devices.
>> +
>
> Pet peeve:
>
> The symbol for millisecond is "ms".  mS is a unit of conductance,  
> millisiemens.

Thanks for the info; this stuff does matter.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-17 21:31 David VomLehn
2009-04-17 22:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-17 23:12   ` David VomLehn [this message]
2009-04-20 21:30 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 21:51   ` Alan Stern
2009-04-20 22:14     ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 22:35       ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:50         ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-20 23:23           ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:53         ` Greg KH
2009-04-20 22:29     ` David VomLehn
2009-04-20 22:35       ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-25  8:16 ` Pavel Machek

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