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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 ? > Your patch isn't printing correctly. It is supposed to write the > output to seq_file, not use printk. Pray tell where does it call printk()? > I get one entry on my system: > 0: tty x:W:U flags: print consoledev enabled > > I would have thought that I would see entries for network, serial, and > syslog too. Yes for network and serial or usbserial. I wouldn't expect syslog (based on my working definition). --- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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