Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] dbid from usrp2

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Dimitris Symeonidis wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've come across a strange bug: while the usrp correctly returns
> dbid() == -1 when no dboard is connected to the side you chose, the
> usrp2 returns dbid() == 1 (which is the id of BasicRX) when no dboard
> is connected. I've checked that it correctly reports the dbid when
> other types of daughterboards are connected.

We really need a dbid that indicates "no board".
Using 0xffff would probably make sense, but it was assigned years ago
to "Experimental".  I don't think anybody's using it, so we might be
able to assign "Experimental" a new value.

Eric