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I've merged with Linus' current tree, due to a newly assigned netlink family, the NETLINK_DECT value has changed. Both the libnl and libdect trees need to be updated as well and recompiled against the current set of kernel headers (specifically, using the current include/linux/netlink.h file).

Refer to the Build_instructions if in doubt.

Thanks to laforge, the git problems should be fixed now. Apparently OpenVZ by default limits the amount of sockets per instance to 1% of the global limit. Git is forking wildly, creating lots of orphaned sockets until it hits the limit.

Some people have reported problems when cloning the kernel tree, unfortunately these are so far unresolved. The kernel changes can alternatively be obtained in patch form from Patches.

We have recently started to analyze some old Motorola Dimetra equipment, the progress can be found at Dimetra_EBTS and the follow-up pages.

Any hints on how to configure/setup/use this hardware are appreciated, especailly regarding the Ethernet protocol between BR and TSC, as well as the E1 protocol from TSC to SwMI.

We haven't had a functioning commit log mailinglist since mid-2009, when the revision control system of openbsc was converted from svn to git.

Especially today, with the large number of separate git repositories on http://cgit.osmocom.org/, it is very easy to loose track of what other developers are doing.

The new mailing list 'osmocom-commitlog' (renamed from openbsc-commits) will receive updates from all repositories on git.osmocom.org.

Feel free to subscribe at http://lists.osmocom.org/mailman/listinfo/osmocom-commitlog

We're sorry to report that there are some problems with our git repositories at the moment, resulting in 'early EOF / index-pack failed' messages when users are attempting to clone one of our repositories.

The problem has been thoroughly analyzed, but even after many hours of analysis, no solution has been found yet. Your best chance is to keep re-trying the clone, in 5-10% of the cases it will succeed.

More technical details are available at this posting to the git mailing list:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169909

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I've created a git repository of the ASL macro assembler with support for the SC1445x/1448x DIPs. This is not needed for building the Com-on-Air firmware and is only useful for people interested in working on adding support for new hardware.

​git://git.osmocom.org/dect/asl.git

Due to git object corruption in the asterisk git tree which prevented further resyncs with upstream SVN, I've replaced the tree by a fresh import of asterisk and chan_dect.

The history of chan_dect is retained, however the tree is not connected to the old one and needs to be recloned.

​git://git.osmocom.org/dect/asterisk.git

Today I've been working on adding support for logging via syslog and to dedicated log files into our libosmocore and libosmovty libraries.

This means you can now finally log not only to stderr of the running process, but also configure any number of log files (each with its own log categories/levels) and through syslog.

In addition, all of the settings can now be configured from the vty (and persistently in the configuration file). You can also re-configure the log levels for those files (and stderr!) at runtime.

Please see the following new commands on the vty:

log file FILENAME
log syslog
log stderr
no log (syslog|stderr)
no log file FILENAME

Within each of those log vty nodes, you can then use the familiar commands like 'logging level mm debug' or 'log filter all 1' in order to configure which subsystems should log with what level of verbosity to the given target.

The abovementioned logging support is immediately available to all Osmocom programs, including osmo-nitb, osmo-bsc, gb_proxy, osmo-sgsn, bsc_nat and many others.

I've merged the DECT kernel tree with upstream 2.6.38-rc2. Due to addition of the AF_ALG socket family, the AF_DECT numeric values have changed. To update, the new version of inlude/linux/socket.h needs to installed in /usr/include/linux and libdect needs to be rebuilt.