I should have enough to start building out a driver using 816 as a base.
Please, please, subclass and re-use as much common code as possible. We have way too many drivers in the tree that duplicate another and make a few changes. It sounds from Mel's description that the cloning routines are similar so please refactor existing drivers to support multiple things wherever possible.
Literally every Icom (non-HF) radio uses the same base cloning code, and literally every Icom HF rig uses another base. Some (several?) of the existing wouxun drivers in tree have whole swaths of duplicated cloning code. When we had to convert everything from python 2 to 3 we were re-converting the same code over and over and over again. Please help by DRYing that stuff up :)
Thanks!
--Dan