Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 12:55:25 EST


Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 18:36 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > In the serial driver this usually just results in dropping
> > RTS to signal the remote end to stop sending. The serial
> > driver always immediately gives receive data to the tty buffering
> > without regard to the throttled state.
> >
> > I would argue that cdc-acm should do the same as the serial driver.
>
> This is a bug in cdc-acm really. It should not double buffer, but to be
> fair to the authors prior to the new tty buffering it *had* to do this.

I assume this applies to all serial drivers in the wider sense?

Regards
Oliver
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