This further speeds up param loading.
On Pixracer via USB, it's possible to send up to 11 at once before the TX
buffer gets full, so there is still enough free bandwidth left.
We buffer the mavlink messages and don't forward them directly
via uORB. This solves an issue where many requests are dropped and
QGC does not start properly in combination with UAVCAN devices.
This change fixes a bug where hash-aware QGC using the old spec would continuously request the parameter list every time it received a mismatched hash.
The existing orb_advert_t use thoughout the code sometimes tries
to treat it as a file descriptor and there are checks for < 0
and ::close calls on orb_advert_t types which is an invalid use
of an object pointer, which is what orb_advert_t really is.
Initially I had changed the -1 initializations to 0 but it was
suggested that this should be nullptr. That was a good recommendation
but the definition of orb_advert_t had to change to void * because
you cannot initialize a uintptr_t as nullptr.
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
The calls to orb_advertise were being mishandled throughout the code.
There were ::close() calls on memory pointers, there were checks
against < 0 when it is a pointer to a object and values larger than
0x7ffffffff are valid. Some places orb_advert_t variables were
being initialized as 0 other places as -1.
The orb_advert_t type was changed to uintptr_t so the pointer value
would not be wrapped as a negative number. This was causing a failure
on ARM.
Tests for < 0 were changed to == 0 since a null pointer is the valid
representation for error, or uninitialized.
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Beat Küng