Re: Interpretation of termios flags on a serial driver

Henrique Gobbi (henrique2.gobbi@cyclades.com)
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:33:26 +0000


Thanks for the feedback.

> If PARENB is set you generate parity. It is ODD parity if PARODD
> is set, otherwise it's EVEN. There is no provision to generate
> "stick parity" even though most UARTS will do that. When you
> generate parity, you can also ignore parity on received data if
> you want. This is the IGNPAR flag.

Ok. But, considering the 2 states of the flag IGNPAR, what should the
driver do with the chars that are receiveid with wrong parity, send this
data to the TTY with the flag TTY_PARITY or just discard this data ?

regards
Henrique

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