Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:20:48 +0200 | Subject | Re: 2.2.12: serial driver swapping characters? |
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On 8 Sep 99, at 13:47, Kris Karas wrote:
> Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > I see wrong time strings quite frequently. > > "\x0201.09.99; 3; 01:41:117 S \x03" > > "\x0201.09.99; 3; 01:43:17; \x03" > > Hi Ulrich, et al, > > I just saw the first instance of what might be serial corruption last night > running 2.3.16. The kernel dumped "VJ Decompression Error" onto my console > while I was using PPP over an error-correcting modem link. I have no idea if > this was due to the serial stream or something in the TCP layer; but if the > former, and the serial code from 2.3 was back-ported to 2.2, then perhaps the > errors are related.
Let me throw in that the problem did not occur on a faster machine, so there might be some race conditions. Slow hardware can't explain swapped chracters or duplicated ones IMHO.
Anyone with a real slow machine out there?
Regards, Ulrich
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