tools/netconsole: Add support for socat
socat is a very powerful tool to work with socets (and not only)
in UNIX systems. Let's add support for it in netconsole.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Ferry Toth <fntoth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ramon Fried <rfried.dev@gmail.com>
diff --git a/tools/netconsole b/tools/netconsole
index 1a0ef22..1554533 100755
--- a/tools/netconsole
+++ b/tools/netconsole
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
usage "Invalid number of arguments"
fi
-for nc in netcat nc ; do
+for nc in socat netcat nc ; do
type ${nc} >/dev/null 2>&1 && break
done
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
# see if ncb is in $PATH
exec ncb ${board_out_port}
+elif [ "${nc}" = "socat" ] ; then
+ # socat does support broadcast
+ while ${nc} STDIO "UDP4-LISTEN:${board_out_port}"; do :; done
+
elif [ -x ${0%/*}/ncb ] ; then
# maybe it's in the same dir as the netconsole script
exec ${0%/*}/ncb ${board_out_port}
@@ -59,5 +63,9 @@
fi
) &
pid=$!
-${nc} -u ${ip} ${board_in_port}
+if [ "${nc}" = "socat" ] ; then
+ ${nc} - "UDP4:${ip}:${board_in_port}"
+else
+ ${nc} -u ${ip} ${board_in_port}
+fi
kill ${pid} 2>/dev/null