[chirp_devel] run_tests Error

Dan Smith
Wed Dec 24 14:05:55 PST 2014


> The "Leixen_VV-898.img" in the repository has no data from 0x0000 to
> 0x0d00 (except for 0x0900 to 0x0906 which is the Custom Display
> message). The current driver intentionally skips over this area. This
> area is where all of the settings are. From 0x0D00 to 0x2000 are only
> channels and names.
> 
> The failure is because I am changing the match_model to look at a
> different area to detect the data file. The current place is editable
> by the OEM software and once the user changes it, CHIRP no longer
> detects the image and it had to be manually selected. The current
> driver fills almost all of the data from 0x0000 to 0x0D00 with 0xFF as
> it is skipped. The data that should be there for my patch to detect
> isn't there and it won't be until my first patch is approved.

Okay, I just don't want to abandon users that currently have images that
work, which won't after this change. However, if the current method for
detection is prone to failure after changing a string, then those were
likely to break at some point anyway.

Thanks!

--Dan

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