537: Documents the nRF BufferedUarte problem r=Dirbaio a=huntc

Please see https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/issues/536 for the rationale.

Co-authored-by: huntc <huntchr@gmail.com>
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@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
//! Async buffered UART
//!
//! Please ee [uarte] to understand when [BufferedUarte] should be used.
//! WARNING!!! The functionality provided here is intended to be used only
//! in situations where hardware flow control are available i.e. CTS and RTS.
//! This is a problem that should be addressed at a later stage and can be
//! fully explained at https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/issues/536.
//!
//! Note that discarding a future from a read or write operation may lead to losing
//! data. For example, when using `futures_util::future::select` and completion occurs
//! on the "other" future, you should capture the incomplete future and continue to use
//! it for the next read or write. This pattern is a consideration for all IO, and not
//! just serial communications.
//!
//! Please also see [crate::uarte] to understand when [BufferedUarte] should be used.
use core::cmp::min;
use core::marker::PhantomData;

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@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
//! Async UART
//!
//! Async UART is provided in two flavors - this one and also [buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte].
//! Async UART is provided in two flavors - this one and also [crate::buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte].
//! The [Uarte] here is useful for those use-cases where reading the UARTE peripheral is
//! exclusively awaited on. If the [Uarte] is required to be awaited on with some other future,
//! for example when using `futures_util::future::select`, then you should consider
//! [buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte] so that reads may continue while processing these
//! [crate::buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte] so that reads may continue while processing these
//! other futures. If you do not then you may lose data between reads.
//!
//! An advantage of the [Uarte] has over [buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte] is that less
//! An advantage of the [Uarte] has over [crate::buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte] is that less
//! memory may be used given that buffers are passed in directly to its read and write
//! methods.

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@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ mod example_common;
use embassy::executor::Spawner;
use embassy::io::{AsyncBufReadExt, AsyncWriteExt};
use embassy_nrf::buffered_uarte::State;
use embassy_nrf::gpio::NoPin;
use embassy_nrf::{buffered_uarte::BufferedUarte, interrupt, uarte, Peripherals};
use example_common::*;
use futures::pin_mut;
@ -24,6 +23,7 @@ async fn main(_spawner: Spawner, p: Peripherals) {
let irq = interrupt::take!(UARTE0_UART0);
let mut state = State::new();
// Please note - important to have hardware flow control (https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy/issues/536)
let u = BufferedUarte::new(
&mut state,
p.UARTE0,
@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ async fn main(_spawner: Spawner, p: Peripherals) {
irq,
p.P0_08,
p.P0_06,
NoPin,
NoPin,
p.P0_07,
p.P0_05,
config,
&mut rx_buffer,
&mut tx_buffer,