Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Hi Michael,

I looked through my commits to the link-suport-2 branch and the only
place I can see that might match your description from Tuesday appears
to be this one:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~epics-core/epics-base/link-support-2/revision/12781

which is one of only 2 commits where I made changes to the code inside
the dbCa.c implementation (as against just changing the function
pointers in the dbCa_lset structure, which happened more frequently).

This commit removed 2 arguments from the lset::getValue() routine:

> === modified file 'src/ioc/db/dbLink.h'
> --- src/ioc/db/dbLink.h 2016-09-02 04:21:23 +0000
> +++ src/ioc/db/dbLink.h 2016-09-04 00:21:11 +0000
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
>  
>      /* Get data */
>      long (*getValue)(struct link *plink, short dbrType, void *pbuffer,
> -            epicsEnum16 *pstat, epicsEnum16 *psevr, long *pnRequest);
> +            long *pnRequest);
>      long (*getControlLimits)(const struct link *plink, double *lo, double *hi);
>      long (*getGraphicLimits)(const struct link *plink, double *lo, double *hi);
>      long (*getAlarmLimits)(const struct link *plink, double *lolo, double *lo,

The pstat and psevr arguments were provided to allow the getValue()
routine to send alarm status & severity values from the target record to
the record owning the link when the appropriate link flags are set
(MS/MSS/MSI).

However all link types now have a pointer to their own record (it used
to be that only some link types had one), so a link support layer can
now set its owner's alarm status & severity directly using the
recGblInheritSevr() routine. Other changes in this commit implement that
for the CA and DB link types.

In dbCa.c the commit does swap the order in which the pca->stat and
pca->sevr values are read to after the call to add_action(), but the
dbCaGetLink() routine is still holding the pca->lock at the time so the
dbCaTask can't modify the pca object yet. We could change that order
back again, but I don't see that it matters.

If I misunderstood and you were worried about some other change instead
please let me know which one.

- Andrew

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