Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] new serial flow control | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 06 Oct 2004 14:29:13 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2004-10-06 at 08:38, Samuel Thibault wrote: > No: CRTSCTS is a one-signal-for-each-way flow control: each > side of the link tells whether it can receive data. CTVB is a > two-signals-for-only-one-way flow control: the device tells when it > wants to send data, the PC acknowledges that, and then one frame of > data can pass.
This sounds a lot like RS485 and some other related stuff. I need to poke my pet async guru and find out if they are the same thing. If so that would be useful.
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