[BRLTTY] Baum routing keys

[Samuel Thibault]

Dave Mielke, le Sun 13 Jan 2008 00:45:08 -0500, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2008/01/13 at 05:26 +0000]
> 
> >I'm giving a try at routing keys, but there's a line in the driver that
> >I don't understand:
> >
> >resetKeyGroup(packet.data.values.routingKeys, cellCount, packet.data.values.routingKey);
> >
> >packet.data.values.routingKeys ad routingKey are part of the same union,
> >so the resetKeyGroup call seems bogus to me, and the RSP_RoutingKeys
> >packet is 2 bytes only anyway.  
> 
> case BAUM_RSP_RoutingKey: // singular
>   resetKeyGroup(packet.data.values.routingKeys, cellCount,
>                 packet.data.values.routingKey);
>     goto doRoutingKeys; // plural
> 
> This code converts a single-key function into a key-group function. This 
> technique is simply a quick way of implementing the single-key functions as 
> their corresponding key-group functions so that they can be most easily 
> handled.

Ah ok, so packet here is merely used as a buffer?

Samuel