Revision history for Net-Elexol-EtherIO24
0.01 2005-10-03 [chrisy]
First version, just for fun.
0.10 2006-10-28 [chrisy]
- Various small tweaks
- Fixed a timing bug that only presented itself when _not_ debugging!
0.11 2006-11-03 [chrisy]
- Same timing bug. Disabled a section of code that seems to be the root
cause.
- Added clarification to documentation about the need for threads and
threading support.
0.13 2006-11-05 [chrisy]
- Some documentation tweaks
0.15 2008-01-28 [chrisy]
- Documentation tweaks
- Add "indirect" updates - ie, perform updates in background,
so that successive line writes cause less packet data, etc.
- Add "indirect" reads - this causes it to cache values retrieved from
the Elexol device for a short interval
- Add hexdummps of packets in debug mode
- Fix some thread shutdown issues
- Split up the "status" and "recv" functions in service_loop into individual
threads.
- Overhauled debugging output. Now centralised, and with a specifyable "prefix".
0.17 2008-02-01 [chrisy]
- Fix module dependencies.
- Add 'read_before_write' feature.
- Add 'flush_writes_at_close' tweakable.
- Add 'clear_cache' method.
- Make threaded=>1 the default. (instead of 0)
0.18 2008-02-01 [chrisy]
- Fix stupid MANIFEST mistake.
0.19 2008-02-05 [chrisy]
- Work on the implementation of set_autoscan_addr
- Add some eeprom-related methods (read_eeprom, write_eeprom,
eeprom_write_enable)
- eeprom_read "retries" if a read attempt timesout.
- Tweak dump_packet slightly
0.20 2009-08-03 [chrisy]
- Add linestatus example utility
- Fix debugging errors that break operation