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[Erez D]

At last - a good answer.

thanks,
erez.

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 31 בAugust 2010 12:22:02 Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > 2010/8/31 Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>:
> > > 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).
>
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