[Linux-gpib-general] Status of ibwait and ibppc

[Markus W. <mar...@or...>]

Hello,

I have written a program which uses the National Instruments GPIB library for 
Linux. It works for the card it was intended to (NI PCI-GPIB), but now I 
would like to have support for more cards (NEC7210 based ISA card) so I tried 
to use the linux-gpib library instead. 

The only problem I have now is that my program uses ibwait to wait for events 
on the bus, and I noticed in the source to the library that it was broken. I 
was wondering what the staus is for ibwait and if someone is working on it. 

The program must support multiple devices on the same bus and beause of that 
I have a thread that does all the reading from the bus with the help of 
ibwait and then puts the data in a data queue for the specific device. 

I can write to a device but because ibwait doesn't work I can't read from it.

I'm also utilizing parallell poll with the commands ibppc and ibrpp and it 
seems the command ibppc doesn't even exist in the library. Is parallell poll 
working and if it is how do i configure the devices for it when there is no 
ibppc command?

Markus Westergren