Re: serial flow control appears broken

Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-07-30T09:36:25Z

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lee Howard wrote:

> >The serial drivers have nothing to do about it -- all they can do is pushing
> >data upstream, to the discipline driver. They can provide an interface to
> >hardware flow control features though, if implemented by a given UART.
> >
>
> Thank you for this clarification. So I should have more correctly been saying
> that "tty flow control appears broken". Right?

Probably. It might be, as Alan suggested, that it is meant to work, but
the latency kills it.

Maciej