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Andreas Eversberg andreas at eversberg.euHolger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: > The concern of the pcu_rx_time_ind is to convert from low-level > hardware primtive to inform other parts of the system. It should > not be responsible for TBF/SBA timeout handling. It is the application > of information hiding (encapsulation) and this concept is quite > old. > it is some kind of a hack. since we don't get bad frame indications from bts for sure, i had to find a way to detect when frames have not been received. normally the pcu_rx_data_ind function should call the timeout function in case of a bad frame. in this case the timeout function should actually be renamed to some kind like gprs_rlcmac_bfi(). if there is a way to fix bad frame indications from sysmobts, i would change the osmo-bts-trx code too, so both will send bad frame indications and we can get rid of this hack.