[asterisk-dev] How to pass a parameter to the DAHDI kernel driver ?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 09/14/2011 03:22 PM, Pavel Troller wrote:

>    Of course, to use it, you need a hardware capable of sending the pulses to
> the phones. In my case, it's using a kind of "channel bank" or "E1
> multiplexer", utilizing a standard Asterisk E1 card with a special type of
> DAHDI signalling on it (a variant of european CAS with DTMF or pulse dialling),
> which I've written formerly as a closed project. The multiplexer contains FXS
> cards, which are able to generate 16 kHz or polarity reversal pulses according
> to their strapping. I don't know, whether any Digium or other native Asterisk
> FXS cards can generate 16kHz, but they probably can generate polarity reversal
> pulses. However, I don't have any of these cards, so implementation of the
> lowest layer of sending the pulses to the hardware for such a card has to be
> done by someone else.

Yes, all the FXS cards/modules that I am aware of can generate polarity 
reversals; they are necessary for some signaling modes. I have no clue 
whether the devices used on those modules are capable of generating a 
16kHz tone; I suspect not.

>    I can submit a patch, residing in chan_dahdi.c, sig_analog.c, dahdi-base.c
> and corresponding include files, but it's based on 1.8 branch. Currently
> I don't have a running 1.10/trunk installation, so I cannot adapt the patch
> for it. Is anybody interested in adapting this change to the Asterisk trunk ?

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