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

[Niksa Baldun]

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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