Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Hill, Bruce via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Tue, 30 Apr 2019 23:42:55 +0000

I can submit a similar pull request for the 3.15 branch.
Even if we choose not to put out another 3.15 release w/ it, that
pull request will be easier to apply as a patch for pre EPICS7 branches.
Regards,
- Bruce

On 4/29/19 12:38 PM, Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
>
>>
>> On 4/29/19 11:19 AM, Jeong Han Lee via Tech-talk wrote:
>>> Is it possible to port or make patch files of this feature into the
>>> existent 3.15.6?
>> The changes that Bruce is proposing could probably be applied to the
>> equivalent files in any EPICS Base release since about 3.14.3, although
>> you wouldn't be able to use the GNU Patch program to do that
>> automatically since the files have been moved around quite a bit and
>> there have been other changes to the sources that would confuse patch.
>
>   Here is no problem, because I create patch files according to the specific EPICS Base versions. Yes, I know that is 
> pain, but only one time pain I will have always.
>
>
>> Martin Konrad has suggested that this change be applied to the Base 3.15
>> branch instead of to 7.0, which I would agree to. It sounds like that
>> might be a popular idea.
>
>   I didn't see his suggestion before. Yes, I also like his proposal.
>
>   Thank you!
>
>   Han
>
>
>>
>> - Andrew
>>
>>
>>> On 4/27/19 8:07 AM, Hill, Bruce via Tech-talk wrote:
>>>> Added dbLoadSuspendOnError iocsh variable.
>>>> Launchpad merge proposal is here:
>>>> https://code.launchpad.net/~bhill/epics-base/+git/epics-base/+merge/366606
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> - Bruce
>>>>
>>>> On 4/15/19 11:44 AM, Mooney, Tim M. via Tech-talk wrote:
>>>>> I've long wanted to give autosave the ability to retain PV values of
>>>>> databases that loaded successfully in the past, but that failed or
>>>>> were commented out during one or more reboots, so they can be
>>>>> restored when the database next boots successfully.  I don't have
>>>>> plans to do this soon, but it does seem a reasonable thing to do,
>>>>> and not all that hard.
>>>>>
>>>>> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
>>>>> Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
>>>>> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> *From:* [email protected]
>>>>> <[email protected]> on behalf of Paduan Donadio, Marcio
>>>>> via Tech-talk <[email protected]>
>>>>> *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2019 12:49 PM
>>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>>> *Subject:* Stopping IOC boot on failure to load database
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello, all.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are thinking about creating a function in EPICS base like
>>>>> stopOnDbLoadErrorto be called before dbLoad* functions. The idea is
>>>>> to freeze the IOC boot with a message on the IOC shell or to
>>>>> completely abort, exiting. Alternatively, we could also place an
>>>>> additional optional parameter to the dbLoad* functions to have the
>>>>> same behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> What we intend with this is:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.) bring the error to the attention of the responsible IOC engineer
>>>>> and,
>>>>>
>>>>> 2.) stop corruption of Autosave files due to missing PVs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you think it would be something valuable to be added in an
>>>>> official EPICS release?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>
>>>>> Márcio Paduan Donadio
>>>>>
>>>>> Control Systems Engineer
>>>>>
>>>>> SLAC
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Bruce Hill
>>>> Member Technical Staff
>>>> SLAC National Accelerator Lab
>>>> 2575 Sand Hill Road M/S 10
>>>> Menlo Park, CA  94025
>>>>
>>

-- 
Bruce Hill
Member Technical Staff
SLAC National Accelerator Lab
2575 Sand Hill Road M/S 10
Menlo Park, CA  94025

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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