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

0.21 2009-08-10 [chrisy]

• Fix reasonably serious thread-separation issue

0.22 2009-08-11 [chrisy]

• Fix deadlock introduced in close upon DESTROY, which may also fix other issues caused by calling close in DESTROY when not the parent thread