[etherlab-users] API function to check that all object dictionaries are read and the sdos fetched

[Gavin Lambert]

On 4 December 2014 23:45, quoth WIEGAND Ralf:
> we are using the etherlabmaster 1.5.1 with RTAI in our system and we are
> searching for an API function or a workaround to check that all object
> dictionaries of the slaves are read and the SDOs are fetched. In detail,
during
> boot of our system the etherlabmaster is started from the Init-V-system.
> Sometimes (according to the number of slaves) our application starts
during
> the master reads the object dictionaries or fetches the SDOs from the
slaves.
> The consequence is that we can not read out SDOs from some of the last
> slaves on the bus.
> 
> Is there any API function, workaround or idea to check that the master had
> read all object dictionaries and the SDOs are fetched ?

Not in the current mainline source.

However if you have a look at
http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-dev/2014/000401.html, you will
find (among other things) a patch that adds this ability.  Look only at
patch #28.