[ECOS] Double buffers using US_RPR and US_RCR

[Koeller, T.]

Eric de Jong wrote:
> However, it is still possible to lose data. If data is 
> received without a
> timeout, the receive buffer will be full. At this point an 
> interrupt is given
> and the buffer is swapped and the data is processed. If this 
> interrupt is
> delayed by another interrupt, and 2 more characters are 
> received, there still
> will be a character loss. This can happen with any burst 
> transmission with more
> data than the size of the receive buffer.

If you are concerned about loosing characters by not being
able to respond fast enough, you may want to look at the
driver patch I recently submitted
(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2003-10/msg00132.html), which
should not suffer from this problem.

tk
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