> On Dec. 10, 2013, 5:14 p.m., rmudgett wrote: > > I don't think changing this default is a good idea. Enabling it is only > > useful if you are using the relative channel format. I have yet to see > > anyone on the Asterisk users list actually use this format. > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > ignore_failed_channels was indeed added to support relative channel > format. That is: [/dev/dahdi/]<span-name>/<relative-channnel-number>. We > originally thought that this was the only way to guarantee stable channel > numbers. > > However with recent versions of DAHDI we can provide stable channel > numbers through other means (/etc/dahdi/span_assignments.conf ). If those are > used, DAHDI will assign the requested span and channel numbers for your dahdi > devices independenly of any module load order and device discovery. > Furthermore, If you only have a single DAHDI device this is a non-issue > anyway. > > One by-product of this work on hotplug dahdi is that we noticed that we > can do away with the DAHDI init script (this still depends on a non-default > setting in the DAHDI kernel module, but I hope it will change in the future). > And thus Asterisk may start before some or all of the DAHDI devices have been > configured. When a device is configured, the hook script responsible for that > eventually runs 'asterisk -rx "dahdi create channels <first> <last>"'. > > I'm backporting support for this to wherever I can as it solves some real > issues I have. Manually configuring chan_dahdi.conf will work, but I prefer > to have sane defaults. > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Should it be included in Asterisk 12 as well?
It should be OK for Asterisk 12 since it has not been released yet and it is a simple default change. - rmudgett ----------------------------------------------------------- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3063/#review10359 ----------------------------------------------------------- On Dec. 10, 2013, 4:25 p.m., Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3063/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated Dec. 10, 2013, 4:25 p.m.) > > > Review request for Asterisk Developers. > > > Repository: Asterisk > > > Description > ------- > > If ignore_failed_channels is set to "true" for a channel, the channel will > continue to be configured even if configuring it has failed. > > One important this This allows Asterisk to start before all the DAHDI > initialization is done and thus not force the starting order dahdi -> > asterisk. > > This patch changes the default of the feature from disabled to enabled. > > > Diffs > ----- > > /trunk/configs/chan_dahdi.conf.sample 403615 > /trunk/channels/chan_dahdi.c 403615 > > Diff: https://reviewboard.asterisk.org/r/3063/diff/ > > > Testing > ------- > > > Thanks, > > Tzafrir Cohen > >
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