Re: [PATCH 1/1] serial_core: Update buffer overrun statistics.

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> Has anyone had a chance to think about this anymore? We would really like 
> the capability to recognize that data has been discarded, even if it is 
> because no flow control is used and the user is ignoring the port. There 
> are cases, such as with RS-485, where there is no real flow control 
> mechanism is available, so we should not depend on flow-control as always 
> being an option. As Corbin mentioned, there are some other drivers using 
> buf_overrun (as opposed to overrun, which indicates FIFO overruns) for 
> this purpose, but we don't know if this was the original intention of this 
> field.

I was hopng Jiri would chip in.

If you think its important and want to argue for it, I'm not going to
fight against it.

Alan
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