[SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

Accidentally I've replied privately, sorry. Forwarding to ML...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Antonino Ingargiola <tritemio@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 4, 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI
usb-serial possible bug]
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx>


On 5/4/07, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 10:38 schrieb Antonino Ingargiola:
> To solve the problem we must do a complete flush of all the buffer
> chain. I do this flushing the input multiple times with a small pause
> between them. In my case 10 flushes separated by a 10ms pause always
> empties the whole buffer chain, so I get no corruption anymore. I'ts
> not an elegant solution but it works (10 flushes are an overkill but I
> want to be _really_ sure to read the correct data).

How do you flush the buffers? Simply reading them out?

Nope. In python I use the flushInput() method of the serial object
defined by the pyserial library[0]. The method does just this system
call:

termios.tcflush(self.fd, TERMIOS.TCIFLUSH)

that I think is correct.

Cheers,

~ Antonio

[0]: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/ (or python-serial debian package)
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