Re: [OctDev] Alpha release of Serial I/O package (v0.1)

[Juan P. C. <car...@if...>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
<car...@if...> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Andrius Sutas <and...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hey Juan,
>>
>> So I upgraded VM to Ubuntu 10.10 and ran several tests with different serial
>> adapters and a virtual interface: pl2303 ( http://pastebin.com/0B2CdyYZ ),
>> FT232RL ( http://pastebin.com/Wb4Yq1r6 ) and socat (
>> http://pastebin.com/uFCVtCgc ). Everything works as it should.
>>
>> I can not reproduce the bug. I think the best for now would be to continue
>> the development and make a public release and see if anyone else has this
>> problem, as now there is a huge lack of testing feedback.
>>
>> P.S. for socat I used: socat -d -d pty,raw,echo=0, pty,raw,echo=0
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <car...@if...>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Andrius Sutas <and...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Juan,
>>> >
>>> > that is really strange. I fired up an Ubuntu VM (vmware) based on your
>>> > previous post for testing:
>>> >
>>> > andrew@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
>>> > No LSB modules are available.
>>> > Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>> > Description: Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
>>> > Release: 10.04
>>> > Codename: lucid
>>> > andrew@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
>>> > Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-42-generic #95-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 25 15:56:09 UTC
>>> > 2012
>>> > x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>> > andrew@ubuntu:~$ gcc --version
>>> > gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) 4.4.3
>>> > andrew@ubuntu:~$ octave --version
>>> > GNU Octave, version 3.2.3
>>> >
>>> > Everything works as expected: http://pastebin.com/E9DMVeVt
>>> >
>>> > What I noticed is that it takes a few seconds to open the interface in
>>> > VM,
>>> > which happens virtually instantaneously on my host (Arch Linux, Kernel
>>> > 3.4.8), need to investigate if that is distribution or VM related.
>>> >
>>> > Could you provide more details about your environment for further
>>> > debugging?
>>> > Also, is there any related output to dmesg when octave hangs?
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>> > <car...@if...>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Andrius Sutas
>>> >> <and...@gm...>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > s = serial(sif, 115200, 0); srl_flush(s) ; srl_write(s, "Hello!");
>>> >> > sleep
>>> >> > (
>>> >> > 0.2 ); tic(); [data, count] = srl_read(s, 10); toc(); char(data),
>>> >> > count,
>>> >> > srl_close(s);
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi Andrius,
>>> >>
>>> >> I tested the new version of the package you send (and the one in svn)
>>> >> and all examples except the first one hang my Octave completely. It
>>> >> seems the timeout is not working here. To cancel execution I have to
>>> >> do twice Ctrl-C (this closes Octave).
>>> >>
>>> >> What can it be?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>> >> -----
>>> >> PhD Student
>>> >> University of Zürich
>>> >> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Sorry, I am running 10.10
>>>
>>> $ lsb_release -a
>>> LSB Version:
>>> core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
>>> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
>>> Description:    Ubuntu 10.10
>>> Release:        10.10
>>> Codename:       maverick
>>>
>>> Please, suggest any test that I can run to help solving the problem.
>>>
>>> --
>>> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
>>> -----
>>> PhD Student
>>> University of Zürich
>>> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/
>>
>>
>
> Andrius,
>
> That sounds ok!
>
> However, you need to document your functions before we can do a public
> release. That is probably the only one strict condition in OF (and
> Agora in the future).
>
> All your functions give "Hello World Help String" when using the command "help".
>
> Good documentation, imho has the following:
> 1. A short description of the file (1 sentence)
> 2. A description explaining what the function is meant to do.
> 3. Explanations of inputs and outputs.
> 4. Examples
> 5. Demos
>
> Number 5 may be impossible in your case since to run demos you need to
> open a serial port and I guess that is hard to automatically find in a
> random machine. Check the help of core functions (like sqp) or in the
> control package.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> --
> M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
> -----
> PhD Student
> University of Zürich
> http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/

btw,
You can use Agora for pasting code and output
http://agora.octave.org/

-- 
M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
-----
PhD Student
University of Zürich
http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/carbajal/