RE: Interpretation of termios flags on a serial driver
From: Henrique Gobbi <hidden>
Date: 2003-03-27 00:02:31
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Hello Ed ! Thanks for the feedback. Please read my coments (doubts actually) below:
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4 - INPCK flag: What's the purpose of this flag. What's the diference in relation to IGNPAR;If INPCK is set, input parity checking is enabled. If INPCK is not set, input parity checking is disabled. This allows output parity generation without input parity errors. Note that whether input parity checking is enabled or dis- abled is independent of whether parity detection is enabled or disabled. If parity detection is enabled but input parity checking is disabled, the hardware to which the terminal is connected will recognize the parity bit, but the terminal special file will not check whether this is set correctly or not. If IGNPAR is set, a byte with framing or parity errors (other than break) is ignored. This means that the data byte with the error is thrown away by the driver as if the byte had never been received. In short, If INPCK is _not_ set, then all received data bytes will be delivered to the user level, regardless of parity errors. If IGNPAR is set, then only received data bytes that do not have parity errors will be delivered to the user level. If PARENB is _not_ set, then the receiver hardware will not detect bad parity, so all received data bytes are considered free of errors. Since there are no data bytes with associated error indications, setting IGNPAR would have no effect. All of the data are considered error free.
Your explanation makes sense to me. With this information I built the
table:
IGNPAR INPCK ACTION:
0 0 Deliver all data to the user-level
0 1 Check parity. Discard erroneous bytes
1 0 ????
1 1 Check parity. Discard erroneous bytes
What goes on ???? ?
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5 - If the TTY knows the data status (PARITY, FRAMING, OVERRUN, NORMAL), why the driver has to deal with the flag IGNPAR. Shouldn't the TTY being doing it ?Not sure I understand the question. Received data does not carry any information about errors with it after it leaves the driver, unless PARMRK is set.
When the driver copy the data from the controler to the flip buffer it copies the data to the buffer tty->flip.char_buf_ptr and it set a flag (TTY_NORMAL, TTY_PARITY, TTY_FRAME, etc) on the buffer tty->flip.flag_buf_ptr telling the TTY how this byte was received. So the TTY knows if certain byte was problematic or not. Did you understand my doubt know ? Thanks for your patience Henrique