On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:53:49PM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Perhaps it just isn't wise to run them at that kind of speed? These are > > very cheap devices and maybe they can't handle running with no room for > > any kind of error? > > > > Unfortunately, I have a couple of platforms with serial consoles that > default to 115K, and changing them makes me non-conformant to the > client's specifications. I think that I'm just going to have to put > together my own adapter hardware, or get something a little more robust. > > But in the bigger picture, I find it disturbing that the usbserial > system seems to fail so catastrophically in these circumstances, rather > than merely dropping a byte or two (or twenty, or whatever). Upon > reflection, I think that's really the issue I'd like to shine some light > onto. That sounds like a driver or hardware specific issue. There are more expensive usb to serial devices that seem to handle high speeds with no problems, and have for years. That is why I think this is a hardware issue at the moment. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
