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Subject: RE: access record info from asyn
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: Hinko Kocevar <[email protected]>, Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:36:15 +0000
Hi Hinko,

I'm not quite sure I understand what you are asking.

Here is what I recommend:

- Use the standard asyn device support that comes with asyn.  It automatically registers for callbacks with your driver when the record is set to SCAN=I/O Intr, and unregisters when SCAN is set to something else.  That is registering/unregistering the record from your driver, not your driver from the application server.

- Your driver uses the normal asynManager functions for doing callbacks, which traverses a linked list of registered callback clients.  If there are no records with SCAN=I/O Intr then your driver will find an empty list.

- One approach is to have your application server ALWAYS do callbacks to your driver, so your driver always has the latest value.  If records are put into SCAN=1 second for example, then they will call the asynInt32->read() function in your driver (for example), where they will always get the latest value.

- An alternative approach is to have the asynInt32->read() function in your driver poll the application server, rather than always getting callbacks.

Which approach to use depends on the frequency with which values are changing in your application server.  If they are changing very fast and there are no records with SCAN=I/O Intr then polling is more efficient.  If they are changing slowly then callbacks is more efficient.

There is no mechanism for your driver to be asynchronously notified when the number of registered callback clients on an interface changes.  However, you can use pasynManager->interrupt start to query the number of clients from the size of the linked list.

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Hinko Kocevar [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:44 AM
To: Tech Talk
Subject: access record info from asyn

Hi,

I'm writing Asyn driver that will interface our application daemon
running on Linux OS.

Application daemon is capable of emitting notifications that can tell
the client (asyn) that there is a change in value. Asyn driver would
register a callback to receive this notifications - everything is nice
and running till now, assuming that record SCAN field is set to I/O Intr
(camonitor refreshes value as expected).

How can I detect if user wants to change the SCAN field value to
Passive? This would in turn mean that we need to unregister from the
notifications that our application is sending and expect the user to do
caget like access.


Thank you!
Hinko

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