[asterisk-users] res_timing_timerfd.so Vs res_timing_dahdi.so

[A E [Gmail]]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Shaun Ruffell <sruffell at digium.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 09:26:48PM -0400, A E [Gmail] wrote:
> >
> > following this advice, is there a quick and minimal way to install/use
> > res_timing_dahdi without having to build/compile/install the whole dahdi
> > package and all the other modules associated with it? back in the zaptel
> > days, I used to be able to modify the Makefile and compile JUST the
> ztdummy
> > module to provide timing for meetme. Haven't touched * for a while esp.
> > Zaptel/Dahdi, so not sure how it works anymore.
>
> In the dahdi-linux package you can edit drivers/dahdi/Kbuild and comment
> out
> every module except for dahdi.ko. So looking in that file you will see
> something like:
>
> obj-$(DAHDI_BUILD_ALL)$(CONFIG_DAHDI)                   += dahdi.o
> #obj-$(DAHDI_BUILD_ALL)$(CONFIG_DAHDI_DUMMY)            += dahdi_dummy.o
> obj-$(DAHDI_BUILD_ALL)$(CONFIG_DAHDI_DYNAMIC)           += dahdi_dynamic.o
> obj-$(DAHDI_BUILD_ALL)$(CONFIG_DAHDI_DYNAMIC_LOC)       +=
> dahdi_dynamic_loc.o
>
> Here dahdi_dummy is commented out.  Just comment out all the other modules
> (lines that start with obj-) and leave only dahdi.o.
>
> dahdi.ko now automatically monitors the spans and if there isn't one
> providing
> timing, it will use the built in timing source which functions very
> similarly
> to dahdi dummy of the past.
>
> > I'm assuming to get res_timing_dahdi, I need dahdi_dummy installed at the
> > very least?
>
> Since dahdi-linux 2.3.0, all you need is dahdi.ko. There is no more
> "dahdi_dummy" module required unless you specifically install it.
>
> > Do I need the kernel source packages like in the old days to compile
> DAHDI
> > against the Kernel etc?
>
> You will still need the kernel sources to compile dahdi.ko against. Also
> when
> you install dahdi-tools, you will want to comment out all the lines in
> /etc/dahdi/modules so that the init script does not try to load any of the
> board drivers.
>
>
Wow! Thanks Shaun for the amazingly detailed and clear instructions. Really
appreciate it.  Let me give this a go.

Cheers :)
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