Gavin Lambert wrote: > Is it expected that after ecrt_request_master(), all online slaves are in > PREOP (or possibly stuck in INIT with error_flag=1)? Or is an application > expected to explicitly verify the state of all slaves before trying to do > anything? > > In the continuing saga of fun with mailbox SDOs, I've found that even with > Frank's or Knud's patches to reduce mailbox contention, there are still some > issues that stem from the slave state not being as expected. > > In my application, on startup it requests the master and then uses > ecrt_master_sdo_upload to fetch certain information from slaves (eg. > profile, version, etc), both for diagnostics and to help ensure the config > is sane. While this normally works fine, there can be problems if it occurs > too soon after the master service is started or after it was last released.
Just a quick thought, did you try waiting until the dictionaries are completely fetched (cf. my patch #28)? Frank _______________________________________________ etherlab-dev mailing list etherlab-dev@etherlab.org http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-dev
