Re: [PATCH] User Guide Document

Hey man,

It's not worth loosing your lunch over it. Take it easy. We have waited ~5 
years, we can wait a few months more :-) Just happy to have you aboard.

BR,
Nikos
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tadeus Prastowo" <[email protected]>
To: "Nikos Balkanas" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 4:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] User Guide Document


> Hi Ho!
>
> Thank you very much for your advice, Nikos.
>
> I will work on this during my lunch breaks.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Nikos Balkanas <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I would recommend going through the source code and if stack ask the 
>> list.
>> For tests best ask users. For code related questions ask devel.
>>
>> Let's say that you are checking out throughput:
>>
>> grep throughput "*.*"
>>
>> I see emi, fake, http, smasi and smpp.
>>
>> Next go to smsc_emi.c. What does the code say?
>>
>> if (conn->throughput > 0) {
>>       delay = 1.0 / conn->throughput;
>>   }
>>
>> if (conn->throughput > 0)
>>           gwthread_sleep(delay);
>>
>> If you check gwthread_sleep, you will see that it is working (albeit with 
>> a
>> bug, since it wakes up with every received package) . Useful to have 
>> ctags
>> installed.
>>
>> So, for emi it is supported and implemented. Is it tested?
>>
>> If you look at the top of the file you will see that the driver is around
>> since 2001. Last person to do changes was V, Chavanis in 2006. That's 3
>> years ago. EMI has the top market share in smscs. I give it 2-3 months
>> before going into production. Usually at this stage anything out of cvs 
>> and
>> stable realeases is production and therefore tested.
>>
>> If after all of this you still feel uncertain, address the lists.
>>
>> BR,
>> Nikos
>
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