Re: Stop making unneeded improvements

[Lamar Owen]

On 1/13/21 10:13 AM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> On 01/12/2021 02:51 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > I'm trying to debug and patch the UHD stack for USRP1 with DBS-RX 
> > daughterboard; it just quit working, and while I've reported to the 
> > UHD list no action has been taken to fix the regression.
> I was able to reproduce the regression issue with DBS-RX on my own 
> ancient USRP1 hardware, and it has been reported.  But I don't know
>   how much engineering bandwidth will be devoted to fixing it. The 
> regression goes back a few UHD release versions--I didn't go all the way
>   "back in time" to figure out where it happened, but it isn't just 
> with the latest release :(

There's another module that had a similar problem, let's see, UHD Github 
Issue #304.  I filed my issue as issue #394.  It seems to be a similar 
issue with a simila construct; my C++ skills aren't keen enough to fix 
it myself, because the patch that fixed #304 was not obvious to me.  But 
I'm not very experienced with C++ (regular C, some, Python a bit more, 
Z80 assembly language a whole lot (fat lot of good that language will do 
for me, right? :-) )). Someone who knows the code could probably fix it 
in less than an hour.  Given enough time I can learn what the difference 
in the RFX code was and apply a similar patch to the DBS-RX code, just 
haven't had enough time to dig in to it yet; I figure it will take me, 
since I'll have to do a whole lot of reading to understand the 
constructs in this code first, four to eight hours.  Just hasn't gotten 
back to the top of the pile yet.


Anyway, thanks for confirm my issue isn't local to me, by the way.