asterisk users - Jan 2005 - So many Asterisk Patches - Which do I choose and use?

Ok,

 

I usually use the latest stable CVS, with no patches or modifications. If
figured if there was a worthwhile patch, Mark would have already included
it. However, there was that neat patch about being able to press a certain
key and it'd begin recording in mid-stream, that was an awesome feature and
I patched my latest features.c file with that patch. But I keep seeing
mentions of other patches, specifically something about the MOH patch, the
BRISTUFFED patch, and now I'm hearing about a "Super Parking Lot"
patch? For
now I've been using the mpg123 method, it tends to work for me, but if I can
save CPU/RAM and other troubles by using another format, which one do I go
with? What is BRISTUFFED? And if I'm right, the super parking lot patch
allows for call parking based on context, a way to break it apart, instead
of making it universal across the whole system (where can I find this
patch)? 

 

So I'm going to ask the question, if I were to install the latest CVS Stable
tonight, which patches should I install on it before compiling? Also, I'm
using Gentoo Linux, with the 2.4.26-r9 gentoo kernel. I've seen issues with
people making Asterisk work perfectly with the 2.6 kernel so I've stayed
clear of it, but I still see people fighting to make it work and such, I saw
one post a while back about the benefits using Asterisk w/ the 2.6 kernel,
can somebody please refresh my memory? What are the benefits of using
Asterisk with the 2.6 kernel? I'm trying to get the most out of my system. 

 

Any help in making tonights compile/upgrade go perfect would be greatly
appreciated. 

 

Thanks,

Paul

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Superparking lot can be found at:

http://www.asterlink.com/svp/

But this does not compile cleanly against the lastest CVS Head
(CVS-HEAD-01/12/05-09:21:28)

-Brian

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 at 10:21 Paul Rodan (asterisk@glitch.cc) wrote:
> Ok,
> 
>  
> 
> I usually use the latest stable CVS, with no patches or modifications. If
> figured if there was a worthwhile patch, Mark would have already included
> it. However, there was that neat patch about being able to press a certain
> key and it'd begin recording in mid-stream, that was an awesome feature
and
> I patched my latest features.c file with that patch. But I keep seeing
> mentions of other patches, specifically something about the MOH patch, the
> BRISTUFFED patch, and now I'm hearing about a "Super Parking
Lot" patch? For
> now I've been using the mpg123 method, it tends to work for me, but if
I can
> save CPU/RAM and other troubles by using another format, which one do I go
> with? What is BRISTUFFED? And if I'm right, the super parking lot patch
> allows for call parking based on context, a way to break it apart, instead
> of making it universal across the whole system (where can I find this
> patch)? 
> 
>  
> 
> So I'm going to ask the question, if I were to install the latest CVS
Stable
> tonight, which patches should I install on it before compiling? Also,
I'm
> using Gentoo Linux, with the 2.4.26-r9 gentoo kernel. I've seen issues
with
> people making Asterisk work perfectly with the 2.6 kernel so I've
stayed
> clear of it, but I still see people fighting to make it work and such, I
saw
> one post a while back about the benefits using Asterisk w/ the 2.6 kernel,
> can somebody please refresh my memory? What are the benefits of using
> Asterisk with the 2.6 kernel? I'm trying to get the most out of my
system.
> 
>  
> 
> Any help in making tonights compile/upgrade go perfect would be greatly
> appreciated. 
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul
> 
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There is no easy answer to your question. If you ask me, I prefer not to
use any patches, except that I am forced to use bristuff because I have
quadBRI ISDN cards. Bristuff patches Zaptel in order to enable using
quadBRI and octoBRI cards, and also  adds some features to *. More info
on www.junghanns.net.

Like you said, really valuable patches will make it to the CVS sooner or
later, so I prefer to wait because it makes installation and maintenance
easier.

I use Gentoo with 2.6 kernel. I am not sure whether you will get any
benefits from upgrading, but I didn't have any problems with it (except
that I had to migrate from devfs to udev, but that issue exists with 2.4
kernel too).


Paul Rodan wrote:
> Ok,
>
>  
>
> I usually use the latest stable CVS, with no patches or modifications.
> If figured if there was a worthwhile patch, Mark would have already
> included it. However, there was that neat patch about being able to
> press a certain key and it'd begin recording in mid-stream, that was
> an awesome feature and I patched my latest features.c file with that
> patch. But I keep seeing mentions of other patches, specifically
> something about the MOH patch, the BRISTUFFED patch, and now I'm
> hearing about a "Super Parking Lot" patch? For now I've been
using the
> mpg123 method, it tends to work for me, but if I can save CPU/RAM and
> other troubles by using another format, which one do I go with? What
> is BRISTUFFED? And if I'm right, the super parking lot patch allows
> for call parking based on context, a way to break it apart, instead of
> making it universal across the whole system (where can I find this
> patch)?
>
>  
>
> So I'm going to ask the question, if I were to install the latest CVS
> Stable tonight, which patches should I install on it before compiling?
> Also, I'm using Gentoo Linux, with the 2.4.26-r9 gentoo kernel.
I've
> seen issues with people making Asterisk work perfectly with the 2.6
> kernel so I've stayed clear of it, but I still see people fighting to
> make it work and such, I saw one post a while back about the benefits
> using Asterisk w/ the 2.6 kernel, can somebody please refresh my
> memory? What are the benefits of using Asterisk with the 2.6 kernel?
> I'm trying to get the most out of my system.
>
>  
>
> Any help in making tonights compile/upgrade go perfect would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
>
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