On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at getty, it has a lot of modem support, including autodetecting > the rate of incoming modem connections from the "CONNECT" message. > > Do you actually have a use case for this? Are there still modems in live > use in 2014, where they're hooked up to a unix system that's waiting for > you to dial in at an unknown serial port rate? (Not internet, not a > statically configured serial connection set by the bootloader or the > console= command line argument?)
As far as I know, rate autodetection from the CONNECT line went out of style with 2400 baud modems. After that (or even in some of those) they added internal compression that needed a higher bit rate on the serial port anyway, so they ended up just using a fixed higher rate. It's very unlikely anybody needs that feature now. ...and now back to lurking... _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
