Likewise, I've found it useful when we can operate as a tag team both connected to a board, and discussing things over IRC. 

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On 8 Dec 2011, at 20:56, Paul Larson wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 11:44:05 -0600, Paul Larson <paul.larson@linaro.org> wrote:
> Sure, we could provide a command line tool for looking up those things  in
> the lava database, and give admins an easy interface to just say "take me
> to the console of this machine", or "hardreset this machine".  If we did
> that, and also added attached serial multiplexing, we will have...
> rewritten conmux. :)

We don't need multiplexing though, and having a persistent daemon seems
to me to be the source of much of the (well, my) angst with conmux.
This has come in handy for me before when debugging locally, or dealing with boards that need serial or usb attachment.