[Rock-dev] RTT InputPort: Enforce buffered connections for input ports

[Martin Zenzes]

On 01/16/2014 05:03 PM, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> The component does not know what type of connection there is, and even 
> with a buffered connection you can lose samples.
Yes.
>
> If you *need* a perfect connection, the protocol should be verified in 
> the driver / processing components and they should go in exception 
> mode if it is invalid.
yes. I'm doing this now.Missing packets are detectable, so...

After thinking a night over this, it makes sense. From the real-time 
perspective. And receiving a bunch of way-two-old packets out of a 
too-big buffer after some time of not being scheduled. Still new to this 
thinking...

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