Re: smsc_timeout, is it possible to turn it off ?

[Daniele Forsi]

Krzysztof Śniadoch wrote:

> as I've noticed, it's quite rare when message isn't send, so the confirmation
> only confirms something  that is almost always true.

only you can decide the tradeoff between speed and reliability

> All errors except timeout are important.

changing the way this timeout works is too difficult, but you could remove the 
piece of code that starts waiting for smsc answer

for the nk6510 driver that you are using this would be (untested):

--- common/phones/nk6510.c.orig 2007-05-16 22:12:29.000000000 +0200
+++ common/phones/nk6510.c      2007-05-16 22:13:12.000000000 +0200
@@ -1489,10 +1489,7 @@

        dprintf("Sending SMS...(%d)\n", pos + 9);
        if (sm_message_send(pos + 9, NK6510_MSG_SMS, req, state)) return 
GN_ERR_NOTREADY;
-       do {
-               error = sm_block_no_retry_timeout(NK6510_MSG_SMS, 
state->config.smsc_timeout, data, state);
-       } while (!state->config.smsc_timeout && error == GN_ERR_TIMEOUT);
-       return error;
+       return GN_ERR_NONE;
 }

 /*****************/

-- 
Daniele