Get rid of these confusing BF_* flags. Now channel naming should clearly
be used everywhere appropriate.
No code was changed, only a renaming was performed. The comments about
channel operations was updated.
These functions do not depend on the channel flags anymore thus they're
much better suited to be used on plain buffers. Move them from channel
to buffer.
This is similar to the recent removal of BF_OUT_EMPTY. This flag was very
problematic because it relies on permanently changing information such as the
to_forward value, so it had to be updated upon every change to the buffers.
Previous patch already got rid of its users.
One part of the change is sensible : the flag was also part of BF_MASK_STATIC,
which is used by process_session() to rescan all analysers in case the flag's
status changes. At first glance, none of the analysers seems to change its
mind base on this flag when it is subject to change, so it seems fine not to
add variation checks here. Otherwise it's possible that checking the buffer's
input and output is more reliable than checking the flag's replacement.
This flag is quite complex to get right and updating it everywhere is a
major pain, especially since the buffer/channel split. This is the first
step of getting rid of it. Instead now it's dynamically computed whenever
needed.
This flag was very problematic because it was composite in that both changes
to the pipe or to the buffer had to cause this flag to be updated, which is
not always simple (eg: there may not even be a channel attached to a buffer
at all).
There were not that many users of this flags, mostly setters. So the flag got
replaced with a macro which reports whether the channel is empty or not, by
checking both the pipe and the buffer.
One part of the change is sensible : the flag was also part of BF_MASK_STATIC,
which is used by process_session() to rescan all analysers in case the flag's
status changes. At first glance, none of the analysers seems to change its
mind base on this flag when it is subject to change, so it seems fine not to
add variation checks here. Otherwise it's possible that checking the buffer's
output size is more useful than checking the flag's replacement.
