Controlling the Serial port

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Jul 7 20:09:01 PDT 2004


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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:20, Bernd Walter wrote:
> The problem is timing as we need to have the transmitter disabled
> bevor the connected device responds to our request.
> There is no garanty that this is allways fast enough from userland.
> It can also be a good idea to clear the receive buffer after enabling
> the transmitter and bevor sending anything to wast stall data.

One way of doing this would be to write a loadable line discipline..

I have been meaning to do this but haven't got around to it yet :)

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