Accidentally I've replied privately, sorry. Forwarding to ML...
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Antonino Ingargiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 4, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug] To: Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 5/4/07, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 10:38 schrieb Antonino Ingargiola: > To solve the problem we must do a complete flush of all the buffer > chain. I do this flushing the input multiple times with a small pause > between them. In my case 10 flushes separated by a 10ms pause always > empties the whole buffer chain, so I get no corruption anymore. I'ts > not an elegant solution but it works (10 flushes are an overkill but I > want to be _really_ sure to read the correct data). How do you flush the buffers? Simply reading them out?
Nope. In python I use the flushInput() method of the serial object defined by the pyserial library[0]. The method does just this system call: termios.tcflush(self.fd, TERMIOS.TCIFLUSH) that I think is correct. Cheers, ~ Antonio [0]: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ (or python-serial debian package) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/