While ASYN/termios does support it, XOFF/XON is a notoriously unreliable flow control mechanism.
Is there really no way to disable this behaviour from the power supply? Could you run at a slower serial line speed and avoid the handshaking?
On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Dirk Zimoch wrote:
> Bjorklund, Eric A wrote:
>> For the first time in our experience, we have a serial device (Kepco power supply) that insists on sending XOFF/XON sequences. We are using streamDevice and a Greenspring Octal IP module to talk to it. StreamDevice and Asyn appear to have no problems with the XOFF/XON characters, however the tyGSOctalStartup routine in tyGSOctal.c puts out a continuous stream of
>> "tyITX ERROR, sr=0c" errors. The cause of these errors turns out to be
>> that the tyITx() routine (a vxWorks function) returns ERROR if it is called to start a transmission and the transmitter is XOFF'd.
>> This causes the tyGSOctalStartup routine to log an error -- perhaps because it thinks someone is trying to send a zero-length buffer (no characters left to transmit is the other reason tyITx() will return ERROR).
>> The easiest way to fix the problem was just to remove the error message (see attached patch file -- which only comments out the offending code in case that turns out to be a bad idea). As far as we can tell, there are no ill effects from this. We seem to be talking to the power supply just fine.
>> Anybody see a reason why we should leave the error report in tyGSOctalStartup() ?
>> Thanks,
>> -Eric Bj
>
> Eric,
>
> XON/XOFF should be resolved on a lower level than StreamDevice and even asyn. In asyn versions >= 4.17 you can control XOFF/XON behavior on the OS driver level:
>
> asynSetOption ("port", 0, "ixon", "Y")
>
> Now, the device should not forward XON to asyn/StreamDevice but instead block the write function until the device is free again (I hope).
>
> Dirk
>
>
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