From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation about RS485 serial communications
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:23:44 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ibu7m0$bgq$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20101116143016.GB6527@ucw.cz
On 2010-11-16, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Documentation about RS485 serial communications
>
> I have seen hardware (kontron pmc-6l) that was capable of switching
> between RS232, RS485 and one other standard by software.
>
> Is such hw common? If so, should we have standard interface?
I wouldn't say it's common, but it's not all that rare either. I
could probably name a half-dozen companies that make serial cards that
have software selectable interface types (my employer makes quite a
few).
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2010-10-19 12:28 ` [PATCH] Documentation about RS485 serial communications Claudio Scordino
2010-10-19 14:29 ` Grant Edwards
2010-10-19 15:27 ` Alexander Stein
2010-10-19 17:22 ` Grant Edwards
2010-10-20 8:00 ` Alexander Stein
2010-10-20 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-24 11:29 ` Claudio Scordino
2010-11-10 9:17 ` Nicolas Ferre
2010-11-10 17:28 ` Greg KH
2010-11-11 10:22 ` Claudio Scordino
2010-11-16 14:30 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-16 14:58 ` Tosoni
2010-11-16 15:52 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-16 15:23 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2010-11-16 15:28 ` Alexander Stein
2010-11-16 16:13 ` Matt Schulte
2010-11-16 16:28 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-16 18:41 ` Matt Schulte
2010-11-16 19:29 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-16 17:20 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-16 18:03 ` Grant Edwards
2010-11-16 20:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-30 19:19 ` Pavel Machek
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