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Subject: RE: asynPortDriver, I/O INTR and missing updates
From: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
To: Jimmy Johnson <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 02:39:58 +0000
Hi Jimmy,

I've been thinking about that problem as well, and in some future version of asynPortDriver I plan to address it.

Meanwhile there is an easy workaround:

   setDoubleParam(myParamIndex, correctValue-1);
   setDoubleParam(myParamIndex, correctValue);
   callParamCallbacks();

This will fool the parameter library into thinking that the value has changed, and it will always do the callbacks.  If this is done with the lock taken (which will normally be the case) then no other thread can get the incorrect value of correctValue-1 from the parameter library for the short time that it has the "wrong" value.

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Jimmy Johnson [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 7:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: asynPortDriver, I/O INTR and missing updates


We have recently built a number of drivers using asynPortDriver. The process has been extremely easy and the results good. We did run into one problem recently which I’d like to get input on.  What we found was that we were missing updates from one driver when using “I/O INTR”. When we looked into it we discovered it was because the setDouble member of paramList checks to see whether the value being passed to it is different from the current parameter value before if updates its flag for inclusion as part of callCallbacks. About 1% of the time the data our driver retrived matched the previous value.



In our case we need the “I/O INTR” records to process regardless of whether the value differs or not (in addition to providing the currrent value it is triggering our servo processing). For now we just modified the asynPortDriver source but this is not how we want to proceed. Would it be possible to modify the setXXXParam calls to take a third defaulted parameter, e.g.  setDoubleParam(int index, double value, bool ignorevaluecheck = false), offer  an overloaded set of setXXXParam calls or is there a way to use the current class such that callbacks occur regardless of the value?



Thanks

Jimmy Johnson



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