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Subject: RE: mbbi/mbbo Mask values
From: "Dalesio, Leo" <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:36:37 +0000
The wiki page now clearly states in the introduction to the MBBI and MBBO that the bits must be continuous.
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From: Andrew Johnson [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 11:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: Dalesio, Leo; Dudley, David
Subject: Re: mbbi/mbbo Mask values

Hi Guys,

On 2012-06-01 Dalesio, Leo wrote:
> Also, changing that MASK to some arbitrary bit pattern in the device
> support seems a very obscure modification that future engineers trying to
> understand the application would likely have a difficult time finding.

I disagree, the MASK field is provided for device support to use, and is only
ever accessed in one place in the mbbiRecord.c file; at record initialization
immediately before the dset->init_record() routine is called the record
executes this statement:

    /* initialize mask*/
    prec->mask = (1 << prec->nobt) - 1;

After this though the record does not change or read the MASK field at all.
Thus device support is perfectly at liberty to use the field however it likes,
as long as it doesn't require that the user set its value in the .db file.  It
is also the device support's responsibility to apply the mask before setting
RVAL if this is necessary and appropriate for the hardware.

Note however that the same is not true of the SHFT field, which is used to
right-shift RVAL before doing the state comparisons when the SHFT field is
non-zero.  SHFT is never set by the record though, and *can* be loaded from
the .db file, although many device supports set it based on the signal number
in the hardware address.

HTH,

- Andrew
--
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte


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