Fix CPX UART flow-control handling#600
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Pull request overview
This PR fixes CPX UART flow-control handling in UARTTransport by replacing the previous “lock-as-CTS” mechanism (which could trigger RuntimeError: release unlocked lock on duplicate/unsolicited CTS frames) with explicit flow-control state, and adds unit tests to validate the new behavior.
Changes:
- Replace CTS signaling based on a shared
Lockwith athreading.Event(_tx_ready) and a separate TX serialization lock (_tx_lock). - Add
_serial_write_lock+_write_raw()to prevent interleaved raw serial writes between CTS replies and data frames. - Update UART read loop to treat unsolicited CTS as harmless and to discard CRC-bad frames until a valid CPX packet is parsed.
- Add fake-serial unit tests covering unsolicited CTS handling, CRC recovery, and CTS-gated writes.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
cflib/cpx/transports.py |
Reworks UART CTS flow-control and improves read robustness (CRC discard + CTS handling). |
test/cpx/test_uart_transport.py |
Adds focused unit tests for the updated UART flow-control and CRC recovery behavior. |
test/cpx/__init__.py |
Marks test.cpx as a package to support test discovery/imports. |
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Summary
Fix CPX UART flow-control handling in
UARTTransport.The previous implementation used one
Lockboth to serialize outgoing writes and to represent incoming UART CTS (0xFF 0x00). This could crash with:when duplicate or unsolicited CTS frames arrived while no write was pending.
This PR replaces that lock-as-CTS mechanism with explicit flow-control state:
threading.Eventto track peer CTS0xFF 0x00frames as harmless CTS eventsFixes #599.
Testing
python -m unittest test.cpx.test_uart_transportpython -m unittest discover test