USB serial ports by serial number

[Oleksandr Rybalko]

Hi,

Looks like you are lucky guy :)
Most of USB-serial devices have "very stable" serial number :)
more than 50% have S/N "0123456789".

So, sometime you change will do it's job.

IMO, better to track hub/port.

Thanks.


чт, 3 жовт. 2019 о 05:56 O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au> пише:

> Hi,
> I have several USB serial ports on a machine and I don't want to rely on
> attach order to get various programs to talk to the correct serial port.
>
> I wrote the following devd script and shell script to create symlinks from
> cu.${sernum}/tty.${sernum} to the real device nodes.
>
> I post it here in the hope other people find it useful.
>
> [maarsytest 2:49] ~> cat /usr/local/etc/devd/usbserialsn.conf
> attach 100 {
>         device-name             ".*";
>         match "ttyname"         ".+";
>         match "ugen"            ".+";
>         match "sernum"          ".+";
>         action "/usr/local/libexec/usbserialsn attach $device-name $sernum
> $ttyname";
> };
>
> detach 100 {
>         device-name             ".*";
>         action "/usr/local/libexec/usbserialsn detach $device-name";
> };
> [maarsytest 2:49] ~> cat /usr/local/libexec/usbserialsn
> #!/bin/sh
>
> if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
>   echo "Bad usage"
>   exit 1
> fi
>
> mode=$1
> devname=$2
> sernum=$3
> ttyname=$4
>
> case "$mode" in
>   attach)
>     if [ $# -ne 4 ]; then
>       echo "Bad usage"
>       exit 1
>     fi
>     ln -sf cua${ttyname} /dev/cu.${sernum}
>     ln -sf tty${ttyname} /dev/tty.${sernum}
>     echo ${sernum} >/var/run/usbserialsn.${devname}
>     ;;
>
>   detach)
>     if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
>       echo "Bad usage"
>       exit 1
>     fi
>     if [ ! -e /var/run/usbserialsn.${devname} ]; then
>       exit 0
>     fi
>     sernum=$(cat /var/run/usbserialsn.${devname})
>     rm -f /dev/cu.${sernum} /dev/tty.${sernum}
> /var/run/usbserialsn.${devname}
>     ;;
>
>   *)
>     echo "Unknown mode"
>     exit 1
>     ;;
> esac
>
> It would be a lot simpler if devd reported the same things on detach as it
> does on attach but I am not sure how difficult that would be to achieve
> (presumably it would require caching them).
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
>
>
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