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authorTzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>2011-10-27 19:59:26 +0000
committerTzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>2011-10-27 19:59:26 +0000
commit064a16065706aa3a34ec52b71050e45a8223377b (patch)
tree728b92b2ebd8ad9e3ea2ed2c7e16aa77430e792c /README
parent03c08d1f09cdc4559424b865ce6825670fa2ad1a (diff)
README: Minor additions regarding pinned-spans
Signed-off-by: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> git-svn-id: http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/dahdi/linux/trunk@10289 a0bf4364-ded3-4de4-8d8a-66a801d63aff
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@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ Span Assignments
A DAHDI device (e.g. a PCI card) is represented within the DAHDI drivers
as a 'DAHDI device'. Normally (with auto_assign_spans=1 in the module
dahdi, which is the default), when a device is discovered and loaded,
-it regiters with the DAHDI core and its spans automatically become
+it registers with the DAHDI core and its spans automatically become
available. However if you have more than one device, you may be
interested to set explicit spans and channels numbers for them. To use
manual span assigment, set 'auto_assign_spans' to 0 . e.g. in a file
@@ -600,11 +600,15 @@ the file 'assign_span' in the SysFS node
Thus:
- echo 1:1:1 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/astribanks:xbus-00/assign_span
- echo 3:2:5 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/astribanks:xbus-00/assign_span
echo 9:5:10 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/astribanks:xbus-00/assign_span
- echo 4:6:20 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/pci:0000:00:09.0/assign_span
echo 2:8:40 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/pci:0000:00:09.0/assign_span
+ echo 1:1:1 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/astribanks:xbus-00/assign_span
+ echo 4:6:20 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/pci:0000:00:09.0/assign_span
+ echo 3:2:5 >/sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/astribanks:xbus-00/assign_span
+
+As you can see, the order of span numbers or local span number is
+insignificant. However the order of channel numbers must be the same as
+that of span numbers.
Which indeed produced:
@@ -762,9 +766,10 @@ it before span nodes are created.
===== /sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/DEVICE/spantype
Device type.
-===== /sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/DEVICE/assgin-span
-Write-only attribute: this device's spans should now be unassigned
-("unregistered"). See section about <<_span_assignments>>.
+===== /sys/bus/dahdi_devices/devices/DEVICE/unassign-span
+Write-only attribute: the span whose device-local number is written
+should now be unassigned ("unregistered"). See section about
+<<_span_assignments>>.
Spans Bus
@@ -809,7 +814,7 @@ A concise name for this span.
A very short type string.
===== /sys/bus/dahdi_spans/devices/span-N/syncsrc
-???
+Current sync source.
User-space Interface
@@ -889,7 +894,7 @@ standard HDLC rate of 64k).
Low-Level Drivers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Low-level drivers create spans ('struct dahdi_span'). They register the
-spans with the DAHDI core using 'dahdi_register()'.
+spans with the DAHDI core using 'dahdi_device_register()'.
'struct dahdi_span' has a number of informative members that are updated
solely by the low-level driver: