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           Summary: Comedi layer is lagging behind comedi releases
           Product: OCL
           Version: 1.4.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: Hardware
        AssignedTo: orocos-dev at lists [dot] mech [dot] kuleuven [dot] be
        ReportedBy: peter.soetens at fmtc [dot] be
                CC: orocos-dev at lists [dot] mech [dot] kuleuven [dot] be
   Estimated Hours: 0.0

Since comedilib 0.8, the GPCT (counter/timer) interface has been changed and
the Orocos ComediEncoder and ComediPulseTrainGenerator are not wWe orking with
these releases. As users will want bugfixes from new Comedi releases, they can
no longer use our classes. In the mean time, we are being stuck with legacy
code and have to maintain our own patches for comedi.

The comedi debian packages are out of sync as well and do not contain the
latest driver updates.

It seems most logical to switch to comedilib 0.8 as soon as possible. Both
comedi and comedilib are being maintained and packaged for Debian Sid by
Gudjon I. Gudjonsson. We should adapt the comedi layer to these packages asap.