On 06/29/14 22:48, Avery Pennarun wrote: > 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...
Yeah, that's what I thought, but it's been long enough since _I've_ used modems that I'm a bit fuzzy. I think I'll yank it and be ready to accept a patch/request putting it back that comes with an explanation of why it's necessary. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
