Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] tty: implement led triggers

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On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:12:53PM +0200, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> On 05/16/2018 09:11 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 09:50:20PM +0200, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > 
> >> There is no ready solution for tty, but it can be implemented with
> >> not so big effort. I don't know what exactly Pavel had on mind,
> >> but I myself see now, that the better approach would be a new
> >> ledtrig-ttydev driver, that would expose three sysfs files: tty_id,
> >> rx, tx. It would also expose the API like e.g.:
> >>
> >> ttydev_trig_notify(int tty_id, bool rx)
> > 
> > There is no unique integer tty_id; consider ttyS0 and ttyUSB0 for
> > example. So this would not work as it stands.
> 
> Ah right, so maybe the string with tty suffix, e.g. "0", "1",
> "S0", "S1", "USB0", "USB1". We could go also for an enum
> representing tty kind, however I'm not aware if there is
> a fixed set of tty kinds.

You need to use the full device name if you want something unique as tty
devices are not even required to use the common tty-prefix (e.g. consider
gsmtty0).

Johan



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