Flip-flat: Allow handshake without ioctl on virtual serial connection #1987
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If initial IOCTL call fails, try premptively pinging the flip-flat anyway, so that the handshake can succeed in the case of a virtual serial port (e.g. a pty with no IOCTL).
This shouldn't impact flip-flat driver users with 'real' or clone hardware, but will allow hardware implementations that use a virtual serial port (e.g. in my case, using stepper/relay hats via gpio on a rpi with a small python daemon)