[chirp_devel] [PATCH] [UV-5R] Prevent image upload when "special block" doesn't match

[Jim Unroe]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Dan Smith <dsmith at danplanet.com> wrote:

> > The Aux block has the band limits. The location in memory of the band
> > limits changed when BFB291 was introduced. This caused some undesired
> > issues so since then the upload of the Aux block is aborted when the
> > firmware versions are different.
> >
> > This new issue is in the Main block. The main block has always been
> > considered to be safe to upload across all models of UV-5R variants. Now
> > it isn't.
>
> Sorry, when you called it the special block, I thought you mean the aux
> block, and I thought you were referring to our selective uploading of
> that if the model/firmware matched. I get the picture now ;)
>
> --Dan
>



I appreciate you watching my back. ;)

I struggled with what to call this 16 byte area. I didn't know if "chunk"
would be better than "block". Not knowing exactly what it was used for I
didn't know what to name it so I just used "special".

Jim
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