In message <200109301003.06903@EO>, Bart Kus writes:

>       Hello, I'm wondering about a seemingly simple sio.c modification.  The 
>problem stems from me wanting to use this dang remote control receiver, which 
>manipulates the CD line of the serial port it plugs into.  Afaik, the UART 
>itself is capable of generating an interrupt whenever CD changes.  The 
>problem is, sio.c doesn't support this feature.  I'm stuck with polling the 
>status register to find out the state of CD.  Not a very good solution for a 
>daemon that's supposed to run in the background all the time, especially 
>since the CD line will be toggled at about 40kHz (I think that's the remote 
>control frequency standard).  Perhaps I'm wrong about the 40kHz figure.

Your machine will not work too well if it is 40kHz.

The PPS-API allows you to timestamp edges on DCD, if the frequency is
more reasonable, that would work for you.  Find RFC27xx for more info
about PPS-API.


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