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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New serial card development
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:26:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023192633.18849645@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k66mc1$cml$1@ger.gmane.org>

> Can it be guaranteed that it's going to be fast enough at high
> baud-rates to prevent any gap between the first byte and subsequent
> bytes?

Possibly not for some protocols (or worse yet 'almost always' for some
protocols).

It's something to look at once the basic bits are in.

> I now work for a company that has manufactured PC serial boards for
> 25+ years, and we still get regular requests for that feature (and our
> boards do support it -- though our Linux driver does not).

In which case when we get to addressing this it will be good to make
sure we cover your needs as well.

Alan
 

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09 18:43 New serial card development Matt Schulte
2012-10-14  9:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-15 19:08   ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-15 23:26     ` Alan Cox
2012-10-16  2:32       ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-17 20:24         ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-19 21:21           ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-23 16:27             ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-23 16:31               ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-23 18:38                 ` Greg KH
2012-10-29 20:04                   ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-31 21:55                     ` Matt Schulte
2012-11-01 22:03                       ` Matt Schulte
2012-11-01 22:26                         ` Alan Cox
2012-11-02 18:47                           ` Matt Schulte
2012-11-02 20:21                             ` Alan Cox
2012-10-23 18:06               ` Grant Edwards
2012-10-23 18:26                 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-10-23 18:45                   ` Grant Edwards
2012-10-23 19:16                     ` Greg KH
2012-10-23 19:42                       ` Grant Edwards
2012-10-23 20:10                         ` Greg KH
2012-10-23 19:24                     ` Alan Cox
2012-10-23 19:48                       ` Grant Edwards
2012-10-23 20:31                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-23 20:41                       ` Grant Edwards
     [not found]       ` <CAJp1Oe6k7NWqdbYkJnd787JiT55-wSbG+tX1tP7Cy-oPShdVaA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-10-17 20:23         ` Matt Schulte
2012-10-17 21:53           ` Alan Cox

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