[chirp_users] [PATCH] [vx5] bugfix, power levels, and 8-char names

[Tom Hayward]

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On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 17:24, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are 3 patches for the VX5 driver. I hope attachments work; I
> don't know how to use hg email!
>
> Here is a summary:
>
> changeset:   1395:693766bb1594
> branch:      vx5
> tag:         tip
> user:        Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl at gmail.com>
> date:        Sat Mar 10 17:10:27 2012 -0700
> summary:     [vx5] allow 8-character names
>
> changeset:   1394:c0f877c47900
> branch:      vx5
> user:        Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl at gmail.com>
> date:        Sat Mar 10 16:41:25 2012 -0700
> summary:     [vx5] add power level support
>
> changeset:   1393:35b6ec0749d2
> branch:      vx5
> parent:      954:09af2a62cf91
> user:        Tom Hayward KD7LXL <esarfl at gmail.com>
> date:        Sat Mar 10 16:01:04 2012 -0700
> summary:     [vx5] bugfix: set non-empty memories visible.
>
>
> This last one was a significant bug. The VX5 has a bit for each memory
> called "visible". From the VX5, you can mask a memory, rendering it
> invisible. When chirp was creating a new memory, it was not setting
> this bit, so newly added memories were invisible! The original tester
> must have only tried editing existing memories where the "visible" bit
> was already set.
>
> Tom KD7LXL