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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Roland Caßebohm" <roland.cassebohm@VisionSystems.de>,
	"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Serial driver hangs
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:03:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096412582.6003.8.camel@at2.pipehead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040928221600.D14747@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:16, Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 04:10:31PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Some 16x50 ports (most of the ones higher than 16550A) have auto flow
> control, so if this is enabled you really don't want to drop bytes in
> the FIFO on the floor.

The alternative is to implement a flow control
mechanism between the flip buffer layer and
the tty drivers to (at the very least)
enable/disable receive interrupts.

Since the flip buffer implementation is probably
going to need rework anyways (eventually) along
with the other tty locking issues, this may not
be a trivial task.

Dropping the bytes is a simple, local fix that
will be more sane than the current
behavior of locking the machine.

A more optimized solution is likely to take a while.

-- 
Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com



  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-28 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 15:34 Serial driver hangs Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-28 21:10 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-28 21:16   ` Russell King
2004-09-28 23:03     ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2004-09-28 22:12       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-29  1:12         ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 13:09           ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-29 13:17             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 14:07               ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-29 14:25                 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 16:16                   ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-30 19:09                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 18:34                       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 19:51                         ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 19:59                           ` Russell King
2004-09-30 20:05                             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 20:30                               ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 20:10                                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 21:25                                   ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01  0:47                                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 15:22                                     ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-10-01 16:06                                       ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 20:13                                   ` Stuart MacDonald
2004-10-01 20:36                                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 14:13             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 15:25               ` Roland Caßebohm

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