[chirp_devel] [PATCH 3 of 4] [LT-580] Driver Maintenance: th9000.py

[Jim Unroe]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 7:49 PM Dan Smith via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>
> > Notes regarding previously saved CHIRP Radio Image (*.img) files:
> > 1. Pre metadata image files will still be recognized because they were
> >   always saved as TYT TH-9000 images and identified as such when loaded.
> > 2. Post metadata image files will still be recognized because the metadata
> >   will be the same.
>
> This is problematic because it causes one image to be detected as two drivers, and thus fails the unit test for "brute force detection" which looks for these conflicts. FYI, I put another patch in the series to just cause the new top-level drivers to require metadata-based files. Anything old will open in the old driver as it would have before, and anything cloned and saved as the new non-alias drivers will open as such as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dan

Oh shoot. I knew I needed to do that and got sidetracked. Thanks for
taking care of this. Sorry. :(

Jim