Serial Library dropped in SDK17 for 52840

[George Redpath]

We are creating and application that will use the Serial port to communicate to a host using an RS485 protocol. We have it working in SDK 15, but we are now trying to build it in SDk17. The nrf_serial.c has been dropped from the libraries., is there a reason for this, and what is supported route to port applications written using this library?

[Kenneth]

The nrf_serial library was removed because of two reasons:

1. The nrf_serial library did not handle UART errors well, you would need to uninit() and init() the library if you had any UART error.

2. The libuarte library is a better choice.

You should be able to continue to use nrf_serial library from SDK15 if you want to.