Re: FW: [psg.com #310] AutoReply: Alarm State Issues

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 02:51:56PM -0500, Sharon Chisholm wrote:
 
>              When the value of 'alarmOutstanding' is set, one or more
>              alarms is active against the resource. The fault may or may
>              not be disabling. This bit provides a high-level summary that 
>              can be used to determine whether or not to examine the rest of
>              the values. "

I still fail to understand why we need a bit to summarize 6 other bits
in a single byte. Unless someone can explain what the performance gain
is of this summary bit, I tend to object to having this bit.

/js

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