On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> > Note that both of these improvements would also apply to tcp_graph.c -
> > will wait a couple of days to be sure the changes are good.
>
> To what extent could code be shared between them - and exported to other
> taps that draw graphs (present or future)?
>

There is a fair bit of functionality that they have in common, there are
relatively few places that are really specific to my different protocol
(LTE RLC).  I did end up taking out the control panel window and magnifying
tool for my version, so there are now several places where I had to avoid
trying to look at the state of widgets that for me don't exist, which may
make factoring out common code a little bit trickier.  As far as I can tell
mine is the only other time-sequence graph based upon the tcp_graph code
(io_stat.c looks like it was written quite independently).

I am undecided about this... I don't know how many protocols are out there
that lend themselves to this kind of graphing.  I had wanted to do mine for
a long time, but was put off by how complicated I thought it was going to
be.  If there was a nice, well-documented framework with obvious places to
put my protocol-specific hooks, I might have created my tap a long time ago.

I will have a go at pulling common code out into a separate file and see if
it looks like it'll be worth it.

Martin
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