Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 07:35:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com> To: Alexander Maret <maret@atrada.net> Cc: "'Poul-Henning Kamp'" <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Accessing the tty structure of an opened device Message-ID: <200010271435.e9REZHF00426@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:29:50 %2B0200." <58A002A02C5ED311812E0050044517F00D2614@erlangen01.atrada.de>
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> That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to write a character device
> which on read() passes the last IR-code.
>
> Well as Mike Smith told me: "you cannot poll the serial line at
> anything like a useful speed to perform IR decoding" my hopes are
> all gone to get a simple solution.
>
> Do I have to write my own serial driver to get what I want or
> is it possible to use functions of the "build in" serial
> device driver?
You will need to write your own. Even then, polling an inbound signal is
not going to be reliable. Use a UART or some other appropriate hardware
decoder.
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