[asterisk-dev] dahdi sysfs branch

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 03:36:48AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've created a branch for dahdi improved sysfs interface. At the moemnt
> it already implements some useful features and usable for other
> developers to look at. It has most of the main features I wanted.
> It is generally not intended for merge before 2.1.0 is released, as it
> is a major change.
> 
> The branch:
> http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/linux/team/tzafrir/sysfs/
> http://svn.digium.com/view/dahdi/linux/team/tzafrir/sysfs/?view=log

Progress there at last.

What is currently not represented there:

Pseudo channels:

pseudo channels get channel numbers allocated to them. But we don't see
them under any span. They are simply "holes". Would it make sense to
have a "span-pseudo" on the spans bus? It is a container of channels but
not a span for practically any other reason. It will also be the only
"span" with a variable number of channels, hwich might break one or two
assumptions.


Real Devices:

As mentioned in the previous mail, most drivers lack a real
representation for the actual device that holds the span. Which is why
the data structure that is used to represent the span has fields such as
"irq" and "location".

While previously I hoped to see all devices under /sys/devices/dahdi , I
now realise that a separate device tree is not a good idea. I will keep
it for now, but this may change on future versions. Userspace programs
should use /sys/bus/spans/devices instead .


I have already started attributes to channels. Right now I just picked
up some fields from the dahdi_chan struct, as it was dead easy:

$ ls -F /sys/bus/spans/devices/span-003/003\:72/
blocksize  chan_alarms  chanpos     name    sig     subsystem@  uevent
bus@       channo       echocancel  power/  sigcap  tonezone

(bus, power, subsystem and uevent are generic sysfs attributes)

Note that this exposes to userspace fields from a struct that is
currently not even in dahdi/user.h . name, channo, chanpos, sig and
sigcap are probably things that should be exposed. Though maybe renamed
(trivia: what is channo and what is chanpos?)

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