Hi,
oliver@xxxxxxxxxx:
> > Ideally we'd use a single port and multiplex the required
> channels
> > across it, but we live in a non-ideal world with
> far-from-ideal device
> > firmware.
>
[ Why are all your emails breaking up the indentation?
Too-narrow terminal window? ]
> Why do you want to
> multiplex?
>
Because some devices export more capabilities in multiplex mode
(working flow control, more than one auxiliary command port).
Unfortunately, many others don't support multiplexing at all, are buggy
(esp. WRT flow control), don't support channel attribute discovery,
are incapable of being switched out of multiplex mode without power
cycling, and/or don't supply documentation for their particular
implementation of the supposedly-standardized multiplex mode without
signing a too-restrictive NDA.
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