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| From: | Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk> |
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Multiple serial ports |
| Date: | Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:13:08 |
| Message-Id: | 878w87ijqk.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk |
| 1 | What is the current recommendation for handling multiple serial ports on |
| 2 | a Gentoo server? In $dayjob we used to use Perl SX cards but recent |
| 3 | kernels have marked the driver for these as 'broken'[1]. We have tried |
| 4 | Digi Etherlite with the dgrp driver, but have had problems with write(2) |
| 5 | blocking forever (despite being preceded by a select(2) call which |
| 6 | indicates the file handle to be writable. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | [1] As it depends on a no-longer supported and buggy facility in the tty |
| 9 | code. |