Bug#809301: Should usb-serial-modules be excluded from network-console/armel.cfg?

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Martin Michlmayr, on Mon 28 Dec 2015 21:00:34 -0800, wrote:
> It was also added to pkg-lists/netboot/network-console/armel.cfg
> explicitly, in a block excluding various udebs with the comment:
>  # Exclude framebuffer related modules that are listed in netboot/armel.cfg

Oops, I probably didn't realize this was the network console.

> I wonder if the line in pkg-lists/netboot/network-console/armel.cfg
> should REMOVE usb-serial-modules rather than ADD it.

Indeed.

> I'm not sure when usb-serial-modules is useful but I assume it's
> related to Braille devices.  Since network-console installations are
> done via SSH, I believe it doesn't make sense to include that module
> there.

For the same reason that it doesn't make sense to include framebuffer
modules, indeed.

Samuel