[asterisk-dev] review: remove support for named channels from chan_dahdi

[Matt Fredrickson]

In the time in which I worked with DAHDI extensively, I don't think I
ever used that feature.

Matthew Fredrickson

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In a new review request ([1]) I call for removing code that supports
> dialing a DAHDI channel by name. I suspect this feature was never
> actually used. I quote here from the commit message:
>
> Support for referring to DAHDI channels by logical names was added in
> (FIXME: when? Asterisk 11? 1.8?) and was intended to be part of support
> of refering to channels by name.
>
> While technically usable, it has never been properly supported in
> dahdi-tools, as using it would require many changes at the Asterisk
> level. Instead logical mapping was added at the kernel level.
>
> Thus it seems that refering to DAHDI channels by name is not really used
> by anyone, and therefore should probably be removed.
>
>
> So, has anyone used this feature? Anybody found it useful?
>
> [1] https://gerrit.asterisk.org/4156
>
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