Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Lee Howard wrote:
Okay, so let's say we've got a loop around a blocking read on the modem file
descriptor...
for (;;) {
read some data from modem
process data from modem
if (end-of-data detected) break;
}
Are you suggesting that the application should be using deasserting RTS after
the read and asserting it before?
It certainly could -- you were asking how it would know. ;-)
I had previously thought that the control of RTS was something that the
serial/tty driver was supposed to do independently based on the buffer fill.
The TTY line discipline driver could do that based on the amount of
received data present in its buffer. And it should if asked to (a brief
look at drivers/char/n_tty.c reveals it does; obviously there may be a bug
Really, where? In my look through the code I haven't found any mechanism
that would result in RTS being lowered based on TTY buffers filling up,
at least not in the 8250 case.
In this situation, though, it appears it's not the TTY buffers that are
filling but the UART's own buffer. I would think this must be caused by
some kind of interrupt latency that results in not draining the FIFO in
time.
somewhere though). So could e.g. the SLIP and PPP line discipline
drivers, though the criteria might be different (apparently they do not,
which is a shame).
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.
Maciej
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