Dear Heiko Schocher,
In message 498050AA.6070609@denx.de you wrote:
We discussed this before. I explained that I do not want to have this added level of complexity in the driver.
Why should I reconsider?
Hups, seems I missed something (Seems I stepped into this subject, after it was discussed here). I thought that you didnt want such a try, because it changes a driver that a lot of boards uses, and if this change is manageable it has a chance to get in mainline. Sorry, I have a look in the archives ...
Well, you can see that I actually reviewed the code. If there wasn;t even a chance I would not have done that ;-)
How is this supposed to work?
Assume you set CONFIG_SYS_SMC_RXBUFLEN to 4, and the user at the serial console port enters just a single character. When will the receiver return this character? You might want to explain the setup...
He will become this character when an idle-timout occurs. Then the SMC closes the buffer ...
So it would probably make sense to mention that you are using the idle timeout now, right?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk