At last - a good answer. thanks, erez.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Oron Peled <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 בAugust 2010 12:22:02 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > 2010/8/31 Erez D <[email protected]>: > > > I am looking for a simple way to know which serial ports i have. > > Instead of searching through /proc and /sys you should use hal: > * To see everything, simply run 'lshal' > * To find UDI's of all serial devices, run: > hal-find-by-capability --capability serial > * To get a specific property (e.g: the device file name): > hal-get-property --udi <udi_string> --key linux.device_file > > From a program, just use the HAL API's. > HAL is being deprecated (by DeviceKit/udev), but is still there > for a while (at least with respect to legacy hardware like serial > ports). > > -- > Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 > [email protected] > http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://users.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron> > "Normal people ... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. > Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough > features ... yet." -- Scott Adams >
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