Bug#776566: Please cater to serial consoles

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

29.01.2015 15:12, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> martin f krafft, le Thu 29 Jan 2015 11:52:36 +0100, a écrit :
>>   2. the boot: prompt appears on both, console and serial console,
> 
> Nack with my brltty maintainer hat: you don't want to send things on the
> serial port without the user saying to do this. In the case of braille
> devices, we have already seen some device being bricked by such behavior
> because it unfortunately made the device enter a ROM-flash mode...

Some serial-connected models of Powercom UPSes will turn off power after
seeing this sequence... ;)  I don't remember which code it is exactly,
but it is a single char from lowercase latin letters.

Thanks,

/mjt