Re: Proposed change of kdb key on serial console

[Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "keith" == Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx> writes:

keith> Currently you invoke kdb on a serial console by ctrl-A.  This causes
keith> problems for people using emacs bindings in bash, ctrl-A is start of
keith> line.  It is very annoying when typing on the serial console to
keith> suddenly drop into kdb without intending to.

keith> In the next major release of kdb, the serial console sequence will
keith> change to <escape>KDB, in upper case.  You can revert to ctrl-A by
keith> changing kdb_serial_str in drivers/char/serial.c.  Complain now if this
keith> will cause any major problems.

I liked it, just now I have:
- C-a used by emacs bindings
- C-a used by screen
- C-a useb by kdb

and that is not good :(

Later, Juan.

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