From: Mark Michelson <mmichelson@digium.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:32:41 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Deprecating chan_vpb. It is now preferred that users of Voicetronix products
X-Git-Tag: 1.4.18~12^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53859e0bfc8cae8e5cb1774378b4374cbeb3a0cd;p=thirdparty%2Fasterisk.git

Deprecating chan_vpb. It is now preferred that users of Voicetronix products
use chan_zap in combination with their zaptel drivers.



git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/branches/1.4@100418 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3
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diff --git a/UPGRADE.txt b/UPGRADE.txt
index 3f6e0aa1e5..a6ec2838bc 100644
--- a/UPGRADE.txt
+++ b/UPGRADE.txt
@@ -384,6 +384,11 @@ The Agent channel:
   channel and module locks (which frequently caused deadlocks). An example of
   how to do this using AEL dialplan is in doc/queues-with-callback-members.txt.
 
+The VPB channel:
+
+* chan_vpb has been deprecated in favor of using chan_zap in combination with
+  the Zaptel drivers provided by Voicetronix
+
 The G726-32 codec:
 
 * It has been determined that previous versions of Asterisk used the wrong codeword
diff --git a/channels/chan_vpb.cc b/channels/chan_vpb.cc
index c12af7ccf0..223eae02f6 100644
--- a/channels/chan_vpb.cc
+++ b/channels/chan_vpb.cc
@@ -2863,6 +2863,12 @@ int load_module()
 	int bal2 = -1; 
 	int bal3 = -1;
 	char * callerid = NULL;
+	static int deprecation_warning = 1;
+
+	if (deprecation_warning) {
+		ast_log(LOG_NOTICE, "chan_vpb has been deprecated in favor of chan_zap in combination with Voicetronix's Zaptel drivers\n");
+		deprecation_warning = 0;
+	}
 
 	cfg = ast_config_load(config);