Hello,
I just wanted to ask whether there is a BS11 that I could have a look
at/play with in Berlin? Does the Club have one or the c-base?
Whom could I kindly ask for a short introduction?
I have experience with Telekom standards/E1/ISDN.
I just tried
to come up with a patch to prefix the timer functions with bsc_
and started to think about public API. The thing is we only need to properly
prefix symbols we intend to export. I don't think we will export timers.
well, it basically depens on how you want to see openbsc/libbsc.
If you treat it as a library, then of course exporting timers is a stupid
idea. However, if OpenBSC is an application program / daemon that also
supports plugins, then providing infrastructure such as timers to the
plugins is a good idea.
I might be off base here, and I haven't looked at the code beyond
getting it to compile on OS X, but:
Telekom applications always need timers and interfaces to other systems,
and a reactor-style event loop with timers is nearly always the way to
go. You've already got a select loop and timers - why not package it in
a separate lib?
Or offer integration with libevent?
(
http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/)
- Lars