This patch adds a function for a common operation of all serial based drivers.
It extracts the serial options from the options linked list that is passed down
to every hardware driver.
A new sp_port is created every time we call serial_open (sp_get_port_by_name
implicitly creates one for us), so free it every time we call serial_close.
g_usleep(XX) sleeps for *at least* XX microseconds but may sleep for
longers (on older kernels the sleep will typically be 10000us). Thus
byte receive loops containing an unconditional sleep will perform
very poorly (for example it causes the scan in agilent-dmm to timeout
prematurely).
Even on modern kernels serial_readline() has a 2ms sleep per byte which
means it will read at a maximum rate of half a character per millisecond
(~4800baud).
This is fixed by only sleeping when read() returns no data.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel@redfelineninja.org.uk>
This is no longer used, and also it is not available on Android and thus
breaks cross-compilation for Android.
Thanks Marcus Comstedt <marcus@mc.pp.se> for reporting.
Options in addition to the usual "9600/8n1" syntax start with a
slash, and take the form of key=value, where different options are
also separated by slashes. For example:
"9600/8n1/rts=0/dtr=1"
This sets RTS low and DTR high.
ols driver used to probe a series of available serial ports obtained
by regexp matching of common serial port names.
There are a number of problems with this approach:
1. It will probe all serial devices, including devices that do not
like to be probed, potentially causing them to act up.
2. It will try to probe serial ports which may already be opened in
other applications for other purposes.
3. It assumes the naming of the serial ports is set in stone, and
creates an unnecessary OS-specific list.
4. It produces unnecessary debug output even when an OLS device is
not connected.
5. etc...
Do not implicitly probe serial ports. Only probe the port specified
by the frontend, if any; otherwise, just quit.
Also get rid of all functionality in serial.c which was designed
specifically for random probing.
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@gmail.com>
poljar (Damir Jelić)
Martin Ling
Uwe Hermann
Matthias Heidbrink
Bert Vermeulen
poljar (Damir Jelić)
Daniel Thompson
lelazary
Alexandru Gagniuc