Bug#361695: kernel-wedge: serial-modules is missing USB serial modules

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Hi,

Joey Hess, le Sun 09 Apr 2006 17:32:16 -0400, a écrit :
> > ir-usb ?
> 
> Only useful if you have an infrared connection and cannot run a proper
> irda stack on both ends, so I don't think we need it.

Ok.

> > safe_serial ?
> 
> I can't tell from the description if this supports some wacky hardware,
> or just tries to be a more robust standard serial driver. Either way it
> doesn't look very likely.

It looks like trying to be a generic robust serial driver. It will
probably only be needed for people who know how to use it.

> > These looked really like generic usb to rs232 converters, so having them
> > in d-i is useful for installing debian over a serial port, for instance.
> 
> Ok, will you want the new usb-serial-modules package built for the stock
> 2.6 (and 2.4?) i386 and amd64 kernels?

At least 2.6 i386/amd64 would be useful.

Regards,
Samuel