In our application, we need blhost to do firmware updates on a KL27Z via a half-duplex serial line (RS-485, a common industrial standard). To make blhost work on a half-duplex line, we've extended blhost to "suppress echoes", or more accurately, blhost ignores a received packet if it's identical to the packet just transmitted. This feature is enabled via a -e/--echosuppress flag on the command line.
So that all works and has proven to be robust.
Our question: since there are certainly other clients working with RS-485 and half-duplex serial lines, is there any interest in back-porting echo suppression into the main branch of blhost? And if so, what's the procedure for doing so?
