From 0537269df779532245eb2954e04fc26b3edfed85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggleton Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:32:02 +0100 Subject: scripts/contrib/serdevtry: add script to handle transient serial terminals When running automated tests (or just generally interacting with) boards whose serial console devices are on the board itself and thus disappear when powered down or practically disconnected, such as the BeagleBone white, some terminal programs (e.g. picocom) will exit when the device disappears and need to be restarted after the serial device returns. This script handles this automatically for such terminal programs. Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- scripts/contrib/serdevtry | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100755 scripts/contrib/serdevtry diff --git a/scripts/contrib/serdevtry b/scripts/contrib/serdevtry new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..74bd7b7161 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/contrib/serdevtry @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +#!/bin/sh + +# Copyright (C) 2014 Intel Corporation +# +# Released under the MIT license (see COPYING.MIT) + +if [ "$1" = "" -o "$1" = "--help" ] ; then + echo "Usage: $0 " + echo + echo "Simple script to handle maintaining a terminal for serial devices that" + echo "disappear when a device is powered down or reset, such as the USB" + echo "serial console on the original BeagleBone (white version)." + echo + echo "e.g. $0 picocom -b 115200 /dev/ttyUSB0" + echo + exit +fi + +args="$@" +DEVICE="" +while [ "$1" != "" ]; do + case "$1" in + /dev/*) + DEVICE=$1 + break;; + esac + shift +done + +if [ "$DEVICE" != "" ] ; then + while true; do + if [ ! -e $DEVICE ] ; then + echo "serdevtry: waiting for $DEVICE to exist..." + while [ ! -e $DEVICE ]; do + sleep 0.1 + done + fi + if [ ! -w $DEVICE ] ; then + # Sometimes (presumably because of a race with udev) we get to + # the device before its permissions have been set up + RETRYNUM=0 + while [ ! -w $DEVICE ]; do + if [ "$RETRYNUM" = "2" ] ; then + echo "Device $DEVICE exists but is not writable!" + exit 1 + fi + RETRYNUM=$((RETRYNUM+1)) + sleep 0.1 + done + fi + $args + if [ -e $DEVICE ] ; then + break + fi + done +else + echo "Unable to determine device node from command: $args" + exit 1 +fi + -- cgit 1.2.3-korg