Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!crash!fredbox!terminator!loodvrij From: loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Problems with patchkit 0.2.4 Message-ID: <CAyEJE.AB@cyb.cojones.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1993 01:23:23 GMT References: <1993Jul15.070541.27917@cnplss5.cnps.philips.nl> <224in8$fl0@acsc.com> <BLYMN.93Jul29103314@siren.awadi.com.au> Reply-To: loodvrij%cyb@fredbox.cts.com Organization: The museum of ancient wombats Lines: 31 In article <BLYMN.93Jul29103314@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: >>>>>> On 27 Jul 1993 07:00:55 +1000, bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) said: >Bruce> NNTP-Posting-Host: kralizec.zeta.org.au > >Bruce> In <BLYMN.93Jul25173659@siren.awadi.com.au> blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn) writes: > >>>>>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 1993 03:20:45 GMT, loodvrij@cyb.cojones.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) said: > >>Bruce> OK, so I'll kill rts/cts for now, then? > >>It would not hurt but then again if the flow control is not being >>used, why should it make any difference? > >Bruce> The flow control lines may oscillate if they are not tied down. This >Bruce> will cause a lot of unwanted modem status interrupts. I've seen >Bruce> interrupt rates of 30K/sec on single port (10K/sec in, 10K/sec out, >Bruce> 10K/sec for flapping modem control lines). The sio driver wants to >Bruce> have the modem status interrupt enabled almost all the time so as to >Bruce> be promptly informed about changes in carrier detect. > > [ sensible comments... ] >-- >Brett Lymn Careful with your 'enhanced' attribution quotes - it seems there are two Bruce's involved here... Maybe we should just call everyone Bruce to avoid confusion.... Bruce. [ In charge of the sheep-dip, probably ]