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From: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
To: Chris Gibson <chris@toftronix.com.au>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>,
	Matthias Fuchs <mfuchs@ma-fu.de>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] serial: Add ioctl to enable auto rs485 mode with some Exar UARTs
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:59:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081222155956.GA13526@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229853004.3216.14.camel@thewinkle.toftronix.com.au>

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Hello Chris,

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 08:50:04PM +1100, Chris Gibson wrote:
> Two and a half weeks ago I submitted a patch to implement RS485 auto
> direction control on either (or both) the RTS and the DTR lines with
> varying pre and post delay settings that would work for _all_ uarts that
> support mctrl.

Just observing the case, I assume that this concern about software RS485
is still valid:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.serial/2568

All the best,

   Wolfram

-- 
  Dipl.-Ing. Wolfram Sang | http://www.pengutronix.de
 Pengutronix - Linux Solutions for Science and Industry

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-22 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 23:48 [PATCH/RFC] serial: Add ioctl to enable auto rs485 mode with some Exar UARTs Matthias Fuchs
2008-12-19 10:28 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-12-22 17:57   ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-12-19 15:13 ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-12-21  9:50   ` Chris Gibson
2008-12-22 15:59     ` Wolfram Sang [this message]
2008-12-22 18:02       ` Matthias Fuchs
2008-12-23 13:23         ` Christopher Gibson
2009-01-02 15:29           ` Matthias Fuchs
2009-01-07 13:42             ` Christopher Gibson
2008-12-23 14:03       ` Christopher Gibson

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