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Korhonen Timo <[email protected]> · Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:01:29 +0200

Hi Andrew and all,

Andrew Johnson wrote:

Does the SLS event system support make use of the er* and eg* record

types from Base, or do they have their own record types? If APS is the

only site actually using these records then we should definately remove

them, but if sites using the SLS event boards rely on the record types

then they probably should remain. Timo, would you like to comment on

Dayle's suggestion?

There are four record types (at the moment) that are related to the

event system (APS & derivatives): eg, egevent, er, erevent.

For the SLS event system the er and eg record have been quite radically

extended; with the Diamond system even more. The e*eventRecords are (or

better said, could be) used unmodified from the base. But I would agree

(and strongly prefer) them to be removed from the base and having them

in a separate package as Dayle suggested. They are closely bound to the

hardware and have no use outside the event system.

That implies however that we have to take care of packaging the things

properly. We probably will need different packages for the different

hardware generations.

best regards,

Timo

- Andrew

Marty Kraimer wrote:

Andrew Johnson wrote:

I agree with Dayle that we should remove these records from base,

especially as they're already unbundled into modules/timing/apsEvent,

but I'm not 100% convinced we should do it in the middle of a major

release number - any comments either way from the floor?

- Andrew

-------- Original Message --------

Subject: Moving event generator and event receiver record support out

of base

Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:09:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dayle Kotturi <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>

Hi Andrew,

Can I put in a vote to pull er*Record and eg*Record support from

base/src/rec

in the next release? It's hardware support and doesn't belong with soft
ioc records. It's better in the site packages evg and evr.

Dayle

The device and driver support has already been removed from base for

the next 3.14 release.

This means that applications that use the APS event system already

have to make some changes.

This let them also get egRecord, egeventRecord, erRecord, and

ereventRecord from modules/timing/apsEvent.

As I recall at least some of these were modified for the SLS and later

event systems.

Marty

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