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Subject: Re: rec/devSup advise needed
From: [email protected] (John R. Winans)
To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:22:14 -0500
>Andrew Johnson wrote:
>
>> IMHO the new formats should not be hard-coded anywhere other than the
>> drivers/device support which use them; the "link_type" in the database
>> "device" definition should be something else which is definable in an
>> ascii file (and convertable into a VME_IO.h file for example, which can be
>> #included by the device/driver).  This way anyone could add a new address
>> type without needing to rebuild base, but you should still be able to
>> retain backwards compatibility for existing device/driver support.
>
>I just read this more carefully. I think I now see what you are saying.
>
>Just like 3.13 has ascii definitions for menus and record types
>let it have an ascii definition for a link type.

Add support for these things to GDCT and you will be caught back up to the 
hardware-config subsystem of RX ;-)


--John Winans


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