[asterisk-users] asterisk 1.4.10 on linux kernel 2.6 needs timing device for trunking

Jared Smith jsmith at digium.com
Tue Nov 6 12:24:36 CST 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:30 +0100, Hans Feringa wrote:
> I understood that a timing device (ztdummy if no zaptel hardware is
> present) was not necessary anymore with linux kernel 2.6.

Not quite... this is commonly misunderstood, so let me clarify.  Under
the 2.6 kernel, ztdummy gets it timing directly from the kernel, and not
from certain USB controllers like ztdummy does under the 2.4 kernel.


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Jared Smith
Community Relations Manager
Digium, Inc.




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