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From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] 8250: Auto RS485 direction control
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 14:22:30 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g773b6$edj$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 014e01c8f63c$6d03dee0$2e01a8c0@acksys.local

On 2008-08-04, Tosoni <jp.tosoni@acksys.fr> wrote:
> About the flags names -- CARTS, UART_FCTR_RS485
>
> May I suggest CRTSTOGGLE since it is known by that kind of name in other
> OS's :-)

RTS toggle is what the feature is called in the products I work
on.  I assume that's a microsoftism, but it seems to be in
commmon usage.

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

Sure.  It's also used for half-duplex modems (e.g. Bell-202,
various RF comm modules) and other sorts of line drivers (e.g.
optical stuff).

-- 
Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow! I want to kill
                                  at               everyone here with a cute
                               visi.com            colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!


  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-04 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24 11:47 [PATCH/RFC] 8250: Auto RS485 direction control Laurent Pinchart
2008-07-24 11:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-24 12:24   ` Russell King
2008-07-24 12:27     ` Alan Cox
2008-07-24 12:52       ` Russell King
2008-07-24 13:00         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-24 13:18         ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-07-24 14:13         ` Matt Schulte
2008-07-24 14:47           ` Russell King
2008-07-24 12:10 ` Russell King
2008-08-04 14:14 ` Tosoni
2008-08-04 14:22   ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2008-08-04 14:36   ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-08-04 16:15     ` Grant Edwards
2008-08-04 16:21       ` Grant Edwards
2008-08-05  9:41       ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-08-05 12:55         ` Tosoni
2008-08-06 14:30           ` Christopher Gibson
2008-08-06 16:33             ` Tosoni
2008-08-09 10:08               ` Christopher Gibson
2008-08-07  8:50             ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-08-07 13:50               ` Grant Edwards
2008-08-10  3:49               ` Christopher Gibson
2008-08-10  3:57               ` Christopher Gibson
2008-08-29 12:22                 ` Christopher Gibson
2008-12-02 13:09                 ` [PATCH/RFC] " Christopher Gibson
2008-12-04 11:14                   ` Christopher Gibson
2008-08-04 16:47     ` [PATCH/RFC] 8250: " Tosoni
2008-08-04 17:46       ` Grant Edwards
2008-08-04 20:59         ` Matt Schulte
2008-08-05  9:23         ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-08-05  9:34         ` Tosoni

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