[En-Nut-Discussion] uartavr and PPP

[Mike Cornelius]

Hi Harald,

What are your thoughts on the following:-

1/
TxComplete(...) in uartavr.c calls NutEventPostAsync(&dcb->dcb_tx_rdy) when
all data has been sent.

If more than one thread is waiting for this event only one thread gets woken
up.

In my app I have a virtual device drive that does have multiple threads
waiting for this via NutIfStreamFlush().

Changing NutEventPostAsync(&dcb->dcb_tx_rdy) to
NutEventBroadcastAsync(&dcb->dcb_tx_rdy) makes my application behave as
expected.

2/
A couple of people seem interested in my PPP driver, this requires a few
mods to Nut/NET (in particular ifconfig.c and ipout.c) to add support for
IFT_PPP.

As I've mentioned previously the driver suits my app perfectly but is not a
complete implementation, do you think it is worth putting this into the
distribution as an imature driver or would you preffer that I forward it
onto those people who want it directly ?

One problem I have with putting it into the distribution is that I don't
have time to add features or offer support.

However the un-official mods to ifconfig.c and ipout.c would make it
dificult for people using the driver to stay current with the distribution.

I don't mind munging my own source tree to suit my needs but I don't really
want to encourage others to do it.

Regards,

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