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Subject: Re: posting DBE_PROPERTY
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:03:28 -0600
Hi Michael,

On 11/04/2013 12:52 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
I made a quick attempt to add posting of DBE_PROPERTY events to give
notification of CA meta-data changes.  A new record field attribute is
added to identify meta-data fields.  Monitors are posted from dbPut()
whenever a meta-data field is written, even if the value doesn't change.

https://code.launchpad.net/~epics-core/epics-base/postdbrprop

Great -- I didn't realize there was so little left to do to finally implement this, although I had been thinking about it for some time. I just pushed a change to add the proc attribute value to the output printed by dbDumpField() and dbWriteRecordType().

I also marked the alarm severity fields HHSV, HSV, LSV and LLSV as prop(YES) for all DBF_DOUBLE-valued records, because changing them to/from NO_ALARM changes the alarm limits reported in a DBR_GR_DOUBLE to/from NaN. There may be a few other fields that we need to mark but I can't think of any right now.

This will also need release notes, modifications to the AppDevGuide to document the prop() attribute, and checking with vdct to see if it accepts this attribute in a DBD file.

Thanks!

- Andrew
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