'Initialize thread.
Note that the serial_instance\' timeout is set to one second!
Other settings are not changed.'

def __init__(self, serial_instance, protocol_factory):

    super(ReaderThread, self).__init__()
    self.daemon = True
    self.serial = serial_instance
    self.protocol_factory = protocol_factory
    self.alive = True
    self._lock = threading.Lock()
    self._connection_made = threading.Event()
    self.protocol = None
