On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:20:21PM -0700, Jim Seymour wrote:
> In the serial DSR in at91_serial.c, there is a CYG_FAIL() macro if the
> receive buffer fills up. (Line #612)
>
> Is this appropriate? We like to run with asserts turned on (at least
> during development), but in our application, overflowing the receive
> buffer is not that big of a deal.
>
> It appears that all the other serial drivers quietly throw away
> characters if their receive buffer is full. Any complaints if I submit
> a patch to do the same in the AT91 driver?
"all other" equates to just the sh/scif driver. At the moment there
are only two drivers to do block transfers, the AT91 being the other.
Removing the CYG_FAIL is O.K.
Andrew
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