No way to flush rx buffer in serial driver?

by Grant Edwar » Wed, 25 Jun 2003 03:27:56

I've been looking at serial driver code (2.4.18), and low level
drivers provide a way to flush the tx buffer by calling

tty->driver.flush_buffer(tty); // from tty_ioctl.c

but there does not seem to be a corresponding call to flush the
rx buffer. Why not?

TCOFLUSH flushes both line-discipline and low-level driver
buffers, but TCIFLUSH only flushes line-discipline buffers.
This seems wrong...

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The problem with dip is that it just doesn't send any characters. If I
go to TERM mode and type stuff, nothing is transmitted. (I have a HP
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With dslip, similar problem. My expect script doesn't send the text until
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If I run seyon or kermit, neither of these have problems.

Any clues??

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