> Has anyone had a chance to think about this anymore? We would really like > the capability to recognize that data has been discarded, even if it is > because no flow control is used and the user is ignoring the port. There > are cases, such as with RS-485, where there is no real flow control > mechanism is available, so we should not depend on flow-control as always > being an option. As Corbin mentioned, there are some other drivers using > buf_overrun (as opposed to overrun, which indicates FIFO overruns) for > this purpose, but we don't know if this was the original intention of this > field. I was hopng Jiri would chip in. If you think its important and want to argue for it, I'm not going to fight against it. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
