[asterisk-dev] Zaptel patch advice needed

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:07:10AM -0600, critch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 19:37 +0500, Anton wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I've came to a requirement to have over 256 /dev/zap/x 
> > device files (512) to have 16E1's accessible (one of the 
> > third party channel drivers - chan_ss7) addresses old-style 
> > and needs this device files).
> > 
> > Any advice how to do this possible highly appreciated!
> 
> Without having looked into chan_ss7, wouldn't it be better to fix
> chan_ss7 to use the current method of addressing more than 254 channels
> instead of trying to patch up the zaptel driver. 
> 

Sure.

Though a thought comes to mind: what if we do want to allow more than
249 zaptel channel device files (let's assume for the moment we will
have a way to work around the "hole" in 250-255) and start actually
referring to the from userspace by name?

This means that I can set the order of channels (e.g: allocate channel
numbers to a card with a specific range, regardless of the arbitrary
loading and scanning order).

Is there anything equivalent to the arbitrary mapping of udev in
FreeBSD? Solaris? Elsewhere zaptel is used?

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