From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964892AbWGIKHn (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:07:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965000AbWGIKHn (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:07:43 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.180]:6776 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964892AbWGIKHm (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:07:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=m+2NG6VnKG4spQPMTpqbgFVNgOIc6phob9obW36McLFEFycRyUjhY7uvNiqNhBCfRh8vPF2bkjKjBGX0hsDxGEbB40GuGJVCRT6lUMjpXJ29ViM564NTGHjl+0XdqlaVJVkzWTGhFZjyjutyGE00QcDdh3+Dcy/6if5C2ykqOd4= Message-ID: <44B0D55D.2010400@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:07:25 +0800 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Smirl CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: Opinions on removing /proc/tty? References: <9e4733910607071956q284a2173rfcdb2cfe4efb62b4@mail.gmail.com> <20060707223043.31488bca.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <9e4733910607072256q65188526uc5cb706ec3ecbaee@mail.gmail.com> <20060708220414.c8f1476e.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <9e4733910607082220v754a000ak7e75ae4042a5e595@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607082220v754a000ak7e75ae4042a5e595@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/9/06, Randy.Dunlap wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 01:56:02 -0400 Jon Smirl wrote: >> >> > On 7/8/06, Randy.Dunlap 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. Tony