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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And if they are both an option, should bus-to-bus junctions have this same
behavior or joining two buses with different labels?

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> It poses a question then: are the bus-to-bus entries ever used?
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 12/10/2017 08:12 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > Jon-
> >
> > Thanks for catching this discrepancy.  I had written the logic such that
> > busses connect to other busses by a bus-to-bus entry.  But clearly, that
> is
> > historically not accurate and there needs to be a junction.
> >
> > -S
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As I am working on bus features I have dived into all the ways you can
> use
> >> buses (that I haven't always known about myself).
> >>
> >> One thing I noticed was an example given on the docs:
> >> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/stable/en/eeschema.html#wires-
> >> buses-labels-power-ports
> >>
> >> Under "Global connections between buses", you have three different named
> >> bus segments joined together with a junction, and a description of how
> >> their nets will be connected during netlisting.
> >>
> >> a) This behavior seems to be kind of broken at present -- when I try to
> >> replicate it, the junction is sometimes automatically removed, and the
> >> netlist does not join all of the nets as described in the manual (maybe
> >> related to Seth's recent changes?)
> >>
> >> b) Those of you who use this feature: how do you use it?  Do you care
> that
> >> the final netlist arbitrarily picks one of the possible net names?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Jon
> >>
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