[Asterisk-Users] So many Asterisk Patches - Which do I choose and use?

[John Middleton]

When you say CVS HEAD is the the same as stable? where do you get it
from and what params do you use?


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:03:34 +0000, Niksa Baldun <niksa.baldun at lumiss.hr> wrote:
> There is no easy answer to your question. If you ask me, I prefer not to use
> any patches, except that I am forced to use bristuff because I have quadBRI
> ISDN cards. Bristuff patches Zaptel in order to enable using quadBRI and
> octoBRI cards, and also  adds some features to *. More info on
> www.junghanns.net.
> 
> Like you said, really valuable patches will make it to the CVS sooner or
> later, so I prefer to wait because it makes installation and maintenance
> easier.
> 
> I use Gentoo with 2.6 kernel. I am not sure whether you will get any
> benefits from upgrading, but I didn't have any problems with it (except that
> I had to migrate from devfs to udev, but that issue exists with 2.4 kernel
> too).
> 
> 
> Paul Rodan wrote: 
> 
> 
> Ok,
> 
>  
> 
> I usually use the latest stable CVS, with no patches or modifications. If
> figured if there was a worthwhile patch, Mark would have already included
> it. However, there was that neat patch about being able to press a certain
> key and it'd begin recording in mid-stream, that was an awesome feature and
> I patched my latest features.c file with that patch. But I keep seeing
> mentions of other patches, specifically something about the MOH patch, the
> BRISTUFFED patch, and now I'm hearing about a "Super Parking Lot" patch? For
> now I've been using the mpg123 method, it tends to work for me, but if I can
> save CPU/RAM and other troubles by using another format, which one do I go
> with? What is BRISTUFFED? And if I'm right, the super parking lot patch
> allows for call parking based on context, a way to break it apart, instead
> of making it universal across the whole system (where can I find this
> patch)? 
> 
>  
> 
> So I'm going to ask the question, if I were to install the latest CVS Stable
> tonight, which patches should I install on it before compiling? Also, I'm
> using Gentoo Linux, with the 2.4.26-r9 gentoo kernel. I've seen issues with
> people making Asterisk work perfectly with the 2.6 kernel so I've stayed
> clear of it, but I still see people fighting to make it work and such, I saw
> one post a while back about the benefits using Asterisk w/ the 2.6 kernel,
> can somebody please refresh my memory? What are the benefits of using
> Asterisk with the 2.6 kernel? I'm trying to get the most out of my system. 
> 
>  
> 
> Any help in making tonights compile/upgrade go perfect would be greatly
> appreciated. 
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul________________________________
> 
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