Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:07:25 +0800 | From | "Antonino A. Daplas" <> | Subject | Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty? |
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Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/9/06, Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 01:56:02 -0400 Jon Smirl wrote: >> >> > On 7/8/06, Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: >> > > I don't know how well this is an answer to your question, >> > > but I would like to be able to find a list of registered "consoles," >> > > whether they be serial, usbserial, netconsole, lp, or whatever. >> > > /proc/tty/drivers does that partially. >> > >> > Console is an overloaded word. Do you want to know where it is legal >> > to send system log output to, or do you want to know where you can log >> > in from? There was a thread earlier that talked a little about >> > controlling this. >> >> I have a working definition: >> I want to see a list of drivers that have called register_console(). >> >> > > I have a patch that also does it in /proc/consoles: >> > > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/patches/consoles-list.patch >> > > Is somewhere in /sys the right place to find a list of all consoles? >> > >> > /sys is the right place for this info but a class does not exist for >> it yet. >> >> I want a list of registered consoles. How would I express that in /sys ? > > You could make the list appear as an attribute in > /sys/class/tty/console. You will need to all a little sysfs code after > the console tty device is created. >
That would violate the one file, one value rule and GregKH will drop it like a hot potato.
A better solution is to have /sys/class/console.
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