[Asterisk-bsd] The future of 4.X support was [zaptel-bsd]

[Luigi Rizzo]

if you can take over mainteinance for 4.x, that would be
great. I am just afraid that it will probably need to be
outside the main freebsd ports tree.

This said, asterisk itself has some issues with the thread
library on 4.x, and while i have been using it for months now,
there are things that do not work (basically anything that forks
a new process) and i suspect that also some long delays i
see sometimes when there are zaptel events are related to this.

So in the end it might be necessary to have asterisk patches
as well.

cheers
luigi

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:59:53PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On 09/27/05 02:17 Alexander Timoshenko said the following:
> >     I don't want to abandone 4.x version completely. And i don't want to 
> > add ifdefs for the reason you've mentioned before. So
> 
> if it's becoming too heavy for the existing developers to handle, i could 
> take on the maintanence of 4.x's zaptel driver code branch. in many cases, 
> the only difference is just centred around the handling of device nodes and 
> module loading. a recent problem i had with the wct4xxp.ko driver was 
> solved trivially by just changing the location of a block of code within 
> wct4xxp.c and nothing more.
> 
> > the best solution(IMHO) would be create a separate branch for 4.X.  I've 
> > browsed CVS history of zaptel.c - and there were no heavy changes
> 
> perhaps we could also handle it in such a way that the zaptel/card specific 
> functions are separated away leaving the workings of the driver the same in 
> all branches of freebsd. this way we could easily produce builds for the 
> different branches by just handling the driver/kernel specific issues.
> 
> -- 
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