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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] 8250: Auto RS485 direction control
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:36:59 +0200
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On Monday 04 August 2008, Tosoni wrote:
> About the flags names -- CARTS, UART_FCTR_RS485
>=20
> May I suggest CRTSTOGGLE since it is known by that kind of name in other
> OS's :-)

I like Russell's proposal of sticking to CRTSCTS and adding options to sets=
erial:

> Should CRTSCTS be a global "enable some kind of flow control" bit and
> setserial be used to configure the actual flow control method
> (conventional RTS/CTS, DTR/DSR, alternate RTS/CTS, RS485 on RTS,
> RS485 on DTR) ?

Any opinion on that ?

> And further, it says was RTS will do, instead of why. Maybe someone could
> use it for something other than RS485 ?

I agree with you here. The name should reflect that RTS is used in 'envelop=
e' mode (asserted during data transmission, idle between frames).

Best regards,

=2D-=20
Laurent Pinchart
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